LING307-21S2 (D) Semester Two 2021 (Distance)

Topics in Phonetics and Phonology

This occurrence is not offered in 2021

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 July 2021
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2021
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 August 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 1 October 2021

Description

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

This course builds on second-year work in phonetics and phonology to broaden and deepen your understanding of the sound patterns of languages. In this course we will cover topics in phonotactics. Phonotactics is the area of phonology dealing with the ordering and arrangements of sounds. The aim of this course is to broaden your understanding of this area of phonology and to develop your research skills.

In the first half of the course, we will cover phonotactics in language typology, from the perspective of categorical restrictions. The second half of the course will cover gradient phonotactics.  In this section of the course, you will carry out an in-depth study of phonotactics using datasets from corpora.  Here you’ll be shown how to analyse some data in R – but don’t worry, you won’t need any previous experience with R to take this course.  

It will be assumed the students in this course will have taken a 200-level course in either phonetics (LING215) or phonology (LING216).

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will have
1. strengthened your conceptual and practical skills for the analysis of spoken language
2. applied theory to practical tasks, and interpreted practice and data in terms of theory
3. developed conceptual tools and background knowledge required to understand developments in the speech sciences, including appreciation of the range of sources of evidence and the multiple levels of theoretical analysis
4. taken a research issue from concept to hypothesis to experimental design, and/or demonstrated understanding of these issues by critically reviewing relevant literature, thereby strengthening your skills of scientific reasoning, research and reporting; this is useful not only to specialists in the speech sciences and related disciplines and professions, but also to graduates who proceed to other professions
5. written a research report and given illustrated oral presentations about it.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

LING301, LING311

Contact Person

Lynn Clark

Assessment

You should expect to write up two short lab reports for assessment. Feedback will be given for the first two. If you would like to achieve a better mark, you may, with permission, submit a third report: the best two marks will each contribute 15% to your final grade.

You are also expected to carry out a more sustained piece of research, or project. This can be experimental, where you make stimuli and collect some data, or analytical, in which you make new measurements on existing data, or you could do a more theoretical type of meta-analysis from a literature review. The aim is to allow you to deepen your thinking in your chosen area, and to develop a range of logical and practical skills concerning scientific thinking and its clear communication to others. This experience is intended to be fun and interesting in its own right. In addition, it should provide you with useful transferrable skills relevant to your future professional and personal life. Your project will be assessed in three ways: a written report describing the research you have carried out, normally following standard format for presenting experimental research; and two short oral presentations: in the first of these you present your research plans and will receive feedback and suggestions; the second presents your main findings. Each should be given using powerpoint or equivalent (or possibly a handout). The written report is worth 40% of the course grade and is due at the end of the semester. The oral report plan is worth 10% of the course grade and is given in week 6; the final oral presentation is worth 20% of the course grade and takes place in week 11.

There is no final exam for LING307.

Textbooks / Resources

There is no required textbook for this course. Most reading material will be from journals. It will be recommended on separate handouts, and some will be available in electronic form via Learn.

To access the Learn page for the course, go to www.learn.canterbury.ac.nz, and log in with your usual UC username and password. You will see a menu of the courses you are enrolled in.

Course links

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

Additional Course Outline Information

Notes

This course builds on second-year work in phonetics and phonology to broaden and deepen your understanding of the sound patterns of languages. In this course we will cover topics in phonotactics. Phonotactics is the area of phonology dealing with the ordering and arrangements of sounds. The aim of this course is to broaden your understanding of this area of phonology and to develop your research skills.

In the first half of the course, we will cover phonotactics in language typology, from the perspective of categorical restrictions. The second half of the course will cover gradient phonotactics.  In this section of the course, you will carry out an in-depth study of phonotactics using datasets from corpora.  Here you’ll be shown how to analyse some data in R – but don’t worry, you won’t need any previous experience with R to take this course.  

It will be assumed the students in this course will have taken a 200-level course in either phonetics (LING 215) or phonology (LING 216).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,570.00

International fee $7,000.00

* 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 .

All LING307 Occurrences

  • LING307-21S2 (C) Semester Two 2021 - Not Offered
  • LING307-21S2 (D) Semester Two 2021 (Distance) - Not Offered