Portuguese Descriptive Grammar part 1 3305-GOJP-11w
The course of Portuguese phonetics covers the following topics:
1. Types of phonetics (articulatory, acoustic, auditory); sounds and letters; transcription.
2. Principles of transcription.
3. The organs of speech and general classification of sounds.
4. Criteria for the classification of consonants: (manner and place of articulation, voiced - voiceless, oral - nasal); table of Portuguese consonants.
5. Cardinal vowels (primary and secondary); criteria for the classification of vowels; table of Portuguese vowels.
6. Mentalistic definition of the phoneme; types of distribution.
7. Allophones of Portuguese consonants; allophonic transcription.
The lecture focuses on the following aspects:
1. Basic concepts of phonetics and phonology.
2. The difference between phonetics and phonology.
3. Basic concepts of generative phonology.
4. The concept of Universal Grammar.
Grupo brasileiro:
1. Estudo dos sons com função comunicativa: fonologia.
2. Unidades de análise fonológica e estudo dos fonemas.
3. Análise fonêmica, fonação e aparelho fonador.
4. Descrição e representação fonética/ fonológicas/ vogais/ semivogais e consoantes, de acordo com a nomenclatura gramatical brasileira.
5. Encontros vocálicos.
6. Diferenças entre a nasalização e a nasalidade.
7. Estudo dos metaplasmos.
Type of course
Mode
Learning outcomes
The course aims at teaching the following skills:
- understanding the difference between phonetics and phonology;
- knowledge about basic concepts of phonetics, as well as generative phonology;
- understanding the notion language typology;
- understanding the notion of Universal Grammar.
Brazilian group:
The course aims at teaching the following skills:
- correct transcription of Brazilian Portuguese;
- correct classification of Brazilian Portuguese speech sounds, including regional variants representative of the main regions of Brazil;
- differentiation between a letter and a sound, as well as between a phoneme and an allophone;
- differentiation between types of phonetics.
Assessment criteria
Grading
Bibliography
F. Espada, Manual de Fonetica
M. Mateus et al., Fonetica e Fonologia do Portugues
M. Mateus, E. de Andrade, The Phonology of Portuguese
P. Ladefoged, A Course in Phonetics
N. Chomsky & M. Halle, Sound Pattern of English
Brazilian group:
Silva, A., Lingua Portuguesa I: Fonetica e Fonologia.
Cunha, C.F., Gramatica da Lingua Portuguesa.
Ribeiro, M.P., Gramatica aplicada da Lingua Portuguesa.
Espada, F., Manual de fonetica.
Lima, E.E.O.F. e Iunes, S.A., Falar... Ler... Escrever...Portugues - um curso para estrangeiros.
Additional materials:
Castro, Y.P., A influencia das linguas africanas no portugues brasileiro.
Additional information
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