LING307-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

Topics in Phonetics and Phonology

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 1 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 17 May 2013

Description

This course follows on from second-year phonetics and phonology, covering selected advanced topics and current research in phonetics and phonological theory.

Listening to speech feels like about the easiest thing we do, but the separate operations it consists of –such as segmenting an utterance spoken as a continuous stream into its discrete components, or selecting words from among a vocabulary extending into the hundreds of thousands – are highly complex. The efficiency with which these operations are carried out derives from the fact that they are, at all points, exquisitely adapted to the characteristics of the mother tongue. This process of adaptation begins in the earliest stages of listening, in infancy. In this course, recent evidence from listening experiments will be reviewed, with particular focus on what the evidence tells us about the universal architecture of listening, and the cross-language variations that it requires.

Learning Outcomes

As a student in this course you will acquire skills in the following areas: critical reading and writing, problem solving, presenting research, and 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 on your research project.

Prerequisites

LING201 or LING207 or LING211 or LING215

Timetable Note

Temporary lecture venue for Professor Anne Cutler's classes:

Time: Friday, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Date:1 Mar - 29 Mar only
Room: Kirkwood KC04

Course Coordinator

Beth Hume

Lecturer

Anne Cutler

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Attendance & participation 10%
Final project 50%
Written assignments 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Anne Cutler; Native Listening ;

There is no textbook for the courses. Instead, the instructor will put a collection of articles and all other course materials for students on Dropbox (dropbox.com).

Course links

Library portal
The course outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).
LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,288.00

International fee $5,600.00

* 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 .

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