OJ528 Functional Phonology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 9:10–10:45 J22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course wants to introduce students to functional phonology of a tradition different to the phonology of Prague School, namely with a phonological theory of André Martinet and his followers. The development of phonology followed a different path than the development of phonology in post-WWII Czechoslovakia, although both built upon theories of Nikolai S. Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson. Martinet’s thoughts had a great impact on Jan W. F. Mulder who, together with Sándor G. J. Hervey, came up with a linguistic approach known as Axiomatic Functionalism. The course will present basic concepts of André Martinet and Jan Mulder.
Syllabus
  • 1. Functional phonology in the historical context
  • 2. Functions of language
  • 3. Phoneme, allophone, phonological form
  • 4. Oppositions
  • 5. Neutralization and archiphoneme
  • 6. Distribution of phonemes, distributional unit
  • 7. Suprasegmental features (accent, tones, diaereme)
  • 8. Application of the theory of a concrete language
Literature
  • Mulder, J. W. F. 1968. Sets and Relations in Phonology. Oxford.
  • AKAMATSU, Tsutomu. Japanese phonology : a functional approach. Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2000, xxii, 373. ISBN 3895865443. info
  • TRUBECKOJ, Nikolaj Sergejevič. Grundzüge der Phonologie. 7. Aufl. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989, 297 s. ISBN 3-525-26401-1. info
  • AKAMATSU, Tsutomu. The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme in functional phonology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988, xxi, 533 s. ISBN 90-272-3537-6. info
  • TRUBECKOJ, Nikolaj Sergejevič. Osnovy fonologii. Translated by Aleksandr Aleksejevič Cholodovič. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo inostrannoj literatury, 1960, 371 s. info
  • MARTINET, André. Phonology as functional phonetics. London: Oxford University Press, 1949, 40 p. info
  • TRUBECKOJ, Nikolaj Sergejevič. Grundzüge der Phonologie. Prague: Cercle linguistique de Prague, 1939, 271 s. URL info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination based on one of the texts explained and discussed during seminars.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2017, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/spring2017/OJ528