LING216-11S2 (C) Semester Two 2011

Phonology and Morphology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 July 2011
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 22 July 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 7 October 2011

Description

In the phonology section, students will learn about how phonetic contrasts can be used to distinguish words. Languages differ from one another in what phonetic contrasts they use for this purpose, and students will be invited to solve problems from a variety of languages illustrating these differences in behaviour. The 'phoneme' concept, introduced in LING101, will be applied to new data. But, while languages differ phonologically, there are also strong tendencies that apply in most if not all languages. Students will be shown how phonological theory aims to account for these tendencies. In the morphology section, students will be introduced to linguistic morphology and word formation - the study of the internal structure of words and building on work in LING101.

Prerequisites

LING101 or LING111 or ENGL123 or ENGL112

Restrictions

LING201, LING211, LING207, LING302

Course Coordinator

Viktoria Papp

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Take-home problem set 1 04 Aug 2011 20%
Take-home problem set 2 08 Sep 2011 30%
Take-home problem set 3 06 Oct 2011 50%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Hayes, Bruce; Introductory phonology ; Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $595.00

International fee $2,588.00

* 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 School of Languages and Cultures .

All LING216 Occurrences

  • LING216-11S2 (C) Semester Two 2011