Fonetika a fonologie A
AJ2201
Irena Hůlková
Introduction
— Teacher: Mgr. Irena Hůlková, Ph.D.
— Office: Room No. 4005, 4th floor, Dpt. of English
— Email: hulkova@ped.muni.cz
— Phone: 549 49 3016
— Office hours: by appointment
Textbooks / Reference Works I.
— Ashton, Helen, & Shepherd, Sarah (2012). Work on
Your Accent: Clearer Pronunciation for Better
Communication. London: HarperCollins Publishers.
— Baker, Ann (2006). Ship or Sheep? An Intermediate
Pronunciation Course. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
— Roach, Peter (2009). English Phonetics and Phonology:
A Practical Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Textbooks / Reference Works II.
— Carley, P., Mees, I. M., Collins, B. (2018). English
Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice. London and
New York: Routledge.
— O’Connor, J.D., & Fletcher, Clare (1989). Sounds
English: A Pronunciation Practice Book. London:
Longman.
— Underhill, Adrian (1994). Sound Foundations: Learning
and Teaching Pronunciation. Oxford: Macmillan
Education.
Dictionaries I.
— Any English – English dictionary, e.g.:
(2003). Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
— Pronunciation Dictionary, e.g.:
Jones, Daniel (2011). Cambridge English Pronouncing
Dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
— Online Dictionaries, e.g.:
Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries at
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
at https://www.ldoceonline.com/
Cambridge Dictionary at
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Syllabus – autumn semester
— Based on the handbook and our e-learning course at
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2447
— Topics covered (autumn semester):
— the notion of phoneme + phonemic chart
— IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
— phonemic transcription
— introduction and practice of individual phonemes (vowels:
monophthongs & diphthongs; consonants)
— aspiration, voiced x voiceless consonants at the end of words
Course Requirements I.
— Regular attendance (strongly recommended) and punctual
arrival
— The “handbook” (to be purchased from Mr. Liška)
— Submission of your own recording – deadline = Monday, 30
September 2024 – see our Moodle course for more detail
— Moodle quizzes (take all the online quizzes in our Moodle
course, by the dates specified – Friday, 6 December 2024)
— Midterm test – 5, 6 and 7 November 2024; pass mark 70%;
transcription from a written text and dictation
— Midterm group consultation (diagnostic, optional) – during our
seminars on 12, 13 and 14 November 2024)
Course Requirements II.
— Phonemic Chart Art Project – teamwork (4-6 students per
group): how to introduce and teach phonemes in English
lessons (due on 3, 4 and 5 December 2024 = presentations in
your seminars)
— The final credit test – 10, 11 and 12 December 2024 and
one-to-one consultation/oral exam in the exam period (i.e.,
January/February 2025); pass mark: 70%
— Homework: Do all the homework assignments, by the dates
specified.
— Active participation: ask questions, answer when called on,
listen carefully to all the issues raised in class; discuss things.
— The usual courtesies: cell phones off, no plagiarism,
all English policy.
Phonetics and Phonology
— Phonetics (deals with SOUNDS)
= “the science or study of speech sounds” (Chalker & Weiner
1998: 295); the main concerns are “the discovery of how
sounds are produced, how they are used in spoken
language, how we can record speech sounds with written
symbols and how we hear and recognise different sounds”
(Roach 2011: 66)
— Phonology (deals with PHONEMES)
= “the study of the way in which speech sounds are used in a
particular language” (Chalker & Weiner 1998: 295); the
main concern is phonemic analysis with the objective to
establish what the phonemes are, and also the study of
stress, rhythm and intonation (Roach 2011: 66-67)
Phoneme
— a regularly used sound
— the smallest meaningful unit in the sound system of a
language (i.e., it is capable of conveying a distinction in
meaning)
— For example, the vowels in the words ‘pin’ and ‘pen’
are different phonemes, and so are the consonants at
the beginning of the words ‘pet’ and ‘bet’ (Roach 2009:
2).
— 44 phonemes in English, subdivided into vowels:
monophthongs & diphthongs, and consonants
Accents and Dialects
— The word accent is often confused with dialect.
— Accent is concerned only with pronunciation
differences.
— Dialect refers to a variety of a language that differs
from others not only in pronunciation but also in
vocabulary, grammar and word order (Roach 2009: 3).
Received Pronunciation (RP)
— The accent that is most often recommended for foreign
learners studying British English.
— The name ‘RP’ is regarded to be old-fashioned and
misleading (it seems to imply that other accents would
not be acceptable or approved of).
— A preferable name is BBC pronunciation (Roach 2009:
3-4) or BBC English.
— Other names used nowadays are:
Standard Southern British (SSB)
General British (GB)
or simply
British English (BrE) and sometimes also modern RP.
References
— Chalker, S. and E. Weiner (1998). Oxford Dictionary of
English Grammar. Oxford, New York: Oxford University
Press.
— Roach, P. (2009). English Phonetics and Phonology: A
Practical Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
— Roach, P. (2011). Glossary – A Little Encyclopaedia of
Phonetics. Retrieved September 22, 2015, from
www.cambridge.org/elt/peterroach.