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This course follows on from second-year phonetics and phonology, covering selected advanced topics and current research in phonetics and phonological theory.
This course focuses on phonetic and phonological variability. We explore the many factors that condition variability, including the sound's phonetic nature, phonological context, word position, and word predictability in the sentence context and language, as well as non-linguistic causes of variability. In addition, we address the question of why variability occurs in the first place. In doing so, we will critically examine phonological theories of variation. Throughout the course, students will get hands-on experience discovering variable patterns and their conditioning factors, using acoustics, speech airflow, and ultrasound imaging of the tongue.
As a student in this course you will acquire skills in: critical reading and writing, problem solving, presenting research, and doing phonetic and phonological analysis. By the end of the course you should be able to identify certain phonological patterns and some of the influencing factors. You will also have the opportunity to practice presenting your research, and should be able to put together a well reasoned and clearly presented short presentation using PowerPoint.
LING201 or LING207 or LING211 or LING215 or CMDS231
LING301, LING311
Donald Derrick
All assignments are to be submitted in pdf format to the instructor's e-mail address.
Hall, Hume, Jaeger and Wedel; The Message Shapes Phonology ; 2016.
There is no textbook for the courses. Instead, the instructor will put a collection of articles and all other course materials for students on Learn. Other material, which may be helpful, can be found at the Library Subject Guide for Linguistics: http://canterbury.libguides.com/
Library portalThe course outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course). LEARN
Domestic fee $1,464.00
International fee $5,950.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .