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In this course, students will learn about the structure underlying the words and sounds used in human language. It will be seen that these systems can differ from language to language in interesting and systematic ways. At the same time, languages also share many common properties regarding, for example, how sounds are sequenced in words. Students will get hands-on experience discovering patterns in language, and come away with a greater understanding of the internal organization of linguistic systems.
How is it that when you encounter a new word, you immediately know if it sounds \good" in your native language? How come that a word that sounds good in one language doesn't sound okay in another? Do some (all? a few? most?) languages follow particular sound patterns to make and avoid various word shapes? These are just a few questions we will be trying to answer during in our endeavour to gure out what phonological knowledge is (and does).In the phonology section, you will learn about the sound patterns of languages and how phonetic contrasts can be used to distinguish words. Languages di er from one another in what phonetic contrasts they use for this purpose, and you will be invited to solve problems from a variety of languages illustrating these differences in behaviour. You will apply concepts learnt in LING101 and LING215 like phonemes, allophones and alternation to data sets. You will notice that while languages differ phonologically, there are also strong tendencies that apply in most if not all languages so we we will look at how phonological theory aims to account for such tendencies. In the morphology section, you will be introduced to linguistic morphology and word formation and the study of the internal structure of words.
At the end of this course, you will have learnt:1. Phonetics(a) to know phonetic symbols and use them to represent speech sounds(b) to distinguish phonetic from orthographic symbols(c) to understand how speech sounds are produced(d) to develop a knowledge of the acoustic qualities of major classes of speech sounds(e) to grasp the articulatory, perceptual and acoustic bases of phonological patterns2. Phonology(a) to know two types of phonological patterns: distribution and alternation(b) to know major types of phonological phenomena such as alternation, assimilation, dissimilation, epenthesis,deletion, syllable, etc.(c) to understand key linguistic concepts such as distinctive features, underlying vs. surface representations, rules and rule ordering, etc.(d) to develop the ability to identify, analyze and explain patterns of distribution and alternation(e) to develop the ability to construct and evaluate competing analyses of identical phenomena(f) to develop the ability to construct and evaluate evidence or arguments for or against competing analyses3. Morphology(a) to understand the main morphological processes such as affixation, compounding, reduplication, etc(b) to know concepts such as morpheme, allomorph, bound vs. free morphemes, root vs. affix, etc.(c) to be able to identify and analyze the morphological patterns4. Writing(a) to be able to sort and arrange data to highlight linguistically signi cant patterns(b) to be able to describe linguistically signi cant patterns(c) to be able to present and illustrate the analysis, using representations, rules and derivations, etc.(d) to be able to present and evaluate arguments for or against competing analyses
LING101 or LING111 or ENGL123 or ENGL112
LING207, LING302
Viktoria Papp
Long Peng; Analyzing Sound Patterns: An Introduction to Phonology ; Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Domestic fee $732.00
International fee $2,975.00
* 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 .