DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR - PHONETICS 3304-3FON-1W
The lecture treats on phonetical and phonological description of contemporary French, in order to introduce students to these domains as seen through procedures of descriptive linguistics, structural (functionalism, distributionism) and generative grammar. An outline of up-to-date issues will also be presented.
Topics:
1. The sounds of the language as seen by phonetics and phonology. The Course in General Linguistics written by F. de Saussure as a theoretical fundament of the phonology constructed by the Prague structural school. Phonology as seen by Martinet and the distributionalists. Generative phonology by Chomsky.
2. Branches of phonetics. Segmental and suprasegmental phonology.
3. Articulation phonetics: the organs of speech and their functions. The system of vowels, their pronunciation and classification. The system of consonants, their pronunciation and classification. Half-vowels and affricates.
4. The acoustic phonetics: the acoustic properties of the sounds of speech, the parameters of their description, identification of vowels and consonants from an acoustic point of view.
5. Audition phonetics: perception of the sounds of the speech.
6. Segmental phonetics: the notion of opposition, of distinctive feature, of neutralization; the sound of speech vs. the phoneme; the vocalic system, the system of consonants. The notion of variation in the description of the phonological system (A. Martinet, H. Walter).
7. Description of phonemes presented as a matrix of distinctive features.
8. Phonological processes: assimilation, dissimilation, metathesis, loss of final unstressed vowel, epenthesis.
9. Prosody: stress, intonation, vowels' duration.
10. Types and functions of stress.
11. Intonation and its functions.
12. The vowels' duration in French.
13. The levels of language and related phonetical phenomena.
14. Phonetical norm.
15. Pronunciation changes observed during the second half of the XXth century.
Type of course
Bibliography
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