RJA117 Phonetics and Phonology of Russian

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Taťána Juříčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Marie Krčmová, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Timetable
each odd Monday 13:20–14:55 L31
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
RJA117/A: each odd Monday 16:40–18:15 A32 stara, T. Juříčková
RJA117/B: each even Monday 16:40–18:15 A32 stara, T. Juříčková
Prerequisites
First cykle, a lecture providing fundamental information about phonetics.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The introductory course that outlines the basic questions of phonetics and phonology. The aim of the course is to offer students systematized complex notions about the acoustic features of Russian sounds from the view of both the articulation and acoustic phonetics as well as phonology. The students should become familiar with the basic phonetic and phonological terminology, learn to use the phonetic transcription in practice and be able to apply the principles of Russian orthoepy. It focuses on the most common articulation errors.
Syllabus
  • 1. The role of phonetics among the disciplines dealing with language and speech. Phonetics and phonology, a phone and a phoneme. The relation between the written and spoken language.
  • 2. The system of Russian vowels, their description and examples of their realization.
  • 3. The elementary types of reduction. The degrees of reduction of the vowels “a” and “o”.
  • 4. The reduction of the vowels following palatalized consonants.
  • 5. The system of Russian consonants: the fund and character of Russian consonants and their articulation and acoustic characteristics. The individual groups of Russian consonants that are differentiated by the way and place of formation. The differences between Czech and Russian consonant phonemes. The correlation of voicing, the correlation of palatalization.
  • 6. The linking of consonants, the changes in voicing, the consonants at the end of the words, the simplification of consonant groups. Assimilation towards the same type of voicing. The occlusive consonants. The non-palatalized and palatalized labials.
  • 7. Alveolar occlusive consonants. Velar occlusive consonants.
  • 8. Fricative consonants. Labial fricatives and alveolar fricatives. Pre-alveolar sibilants. Palatalized and non-palatalized pre-alveolar sibilants. Doubled palatalized dull sibilants.
  • 9. Velar fricatives, palatalized fricatives. The semi-occlusive consonants.
  • 10. The elementary units of a continuous speech (a syllable, time, segment of a sentence).
  • 11. The acoustic features of a sentence (a pause, dynamic and melodic modulation).
  • 12. – 13. Constructing an intonation.
Literature
  • Příruční mluvnice ruštiny pro Čechy. Edited by Bohuslav Havránek. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1961. info
  • OLIVERIUS, Zdeněk František. Fonetika russkogo jazyka. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1987. info
  • AVANESOV, Ruben Ivanovič. Fonetika sovremennogo russkogo literaturnogo jazyka. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo universiteta, 1956, 239 stran. info
  • ROMPORTL, Milan. Stručná fonetika ruštiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1973, 175 s. info
  • Sovremennyj russkij jazyk : teoretičeskij kurs : fonetika : ... dlja studentov-inostrancev. Moskva: Russkij jazyk, 1985. info
  • GVOZDEV, Aleksandr Nikolajevič. Sovremennyj russkij literaturnyj jazyk. Izd. 3. Moskva: Prosveščenije, 1967, 431 s. info
  • ARTEMOV, V. A. Eksperimental'naja fonetika. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo literatury na inostrannych jazykach, 1956, 227 s. info
Teaching methods
Lectures are based on tutorials, the main aim of this course is on practical training of phonetic and phonological transcription; training of oral speech.
Assessment methods
Written test, debate.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010.
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