AJL59017 Topics in Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2026
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 7 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
For taking this course it is necessary to have completed a training in the phonetics and phonology of English at a bachelor's level at least. Having had a training in public speaking or a course of pronunciation varieties of English is an advantage.
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 course aims at revising and practising speaking skills and strategies in frequent academic situations.
Learning outcomes
On completing this course, a student will reach his/her personal best at speaking skills via a synthesis of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and idiom into competent utterances.
Syllabus
  • 1 A discussion about the specificities of oral skills in a FL 2 Segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation of English 3 Grammatical mechanism training 4 The training ov vocabulary, collocations in particular 5 Idiomatic expression training Students' own topics, often those of their diploma theses, e.g. 6 The schwa vowel 7 The perceptions of a foreign language pronunciation by musicians 8 Apps for pronunciation training 9 AAVE in theatre 10 The Yanito dialect in Gibraltar
Literature
  • COLLINS, Beverley and Inger MEES. Practical phonetics and phonology : a resource book for students. Third edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013, xxi, 329. ISBN 9780415506502. info
  • HEADLANDOVÁ KALISCHOVÁ, Irena. Intonation in discourse: English intonation as (mis)used by Czech speakers. 1st ed. Brno: Pedagogická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, 2010, 157 pp. Spisy Pedagogické fakulty MU svazek 138. ISBN 978-80-210-5313-7. info
  • CELCE-MURCIA, Marianne, Donna BRINTON and Janet M. GOODWIN. Teaching pronunciation : a course book and reference guide. Edited by Barry Griner. Second edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xx, 556. ISBN 9780521729765. info
  • WELLS, J. C. English intonation : an introduction. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, ix, 276. ISBN 9780521865241. info
Teaching methods
Lectures by teacher, presentations by students, discussions.
Assessment methods
Students are required to actively participate in classes, contribute to discussions, prepare and give presentations and show consistent improvement of their speaking skills.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught every other week.
General note: This course is NOT designated for Erasmus students! List of courses offerd by the Department of English and American studies for Erasmsus students is available at http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/ under "Information for Erasmus students".
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