Course Instructional Goals & Objectives



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  1. Course Description

This course introduces students to the study of articulatory phonetics, and the technical terms required for describing speech. It provides students with the basic notions of phonetic transcription and the set of symbols for transcribing English and Arabic. The main emphasis is on acquiring the practical ability to make and hear differences between sounds and to identify common pronunciation problems. The specific aim of the course is to provide students with a solid foundation for the study of the sound patterns of English and to help them master the basic notions of phonetic transcription.

  1. Course Instructional Goals & Objectives

Instructional Goals:

Students are expected to demonstrate three kinds of skills/knowledge.



  1. accurate phonetic transcription

  2. Knowledge of facts

  3. explanation and application of concepts



  1. Objectives

The specific aim of the course is to provide students with a solid foundation for the study of the sound patterns of English. This is largely a practical course and students are thus introduced to the phonetic classification of the sounds of speech by means of a series of simple introspective experiments carried out inside their own vocal tracts, their throats, and mouths. By actually making sounds and attending to the muscular sensations that accompany their production students can discover how they are produced and learn how to describe and classify them. Students are encouraged to listen carefully and to notice differences in pronunciations. By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  1. Define the technical terms required to describe speech.

  2. Describe the physiology of speech.

  3. Illustrate and name the vocal organs.

  4. Identify the symbols for transcription.

  5. Identify place of articulation

  6. Identify manner of articulation

  7. Illustrate sounds represented by IPA symbols.

  8. Distinguish between English vowels

  9. Distinguish between English consonants

  10. Provide single phonetic characteristics of segments.

  11. Provide accurate broad and narrow transcription

  12. Identify and correct specific pronunciation problems.

  13. Apply basic phonological rules for English consonant allophones.

  14. Label and reproduce articulatory diagrams of consonants and vowel sounds.

  15. Identify simple phonological processes, assimilation, deletion, insertion.

  16. Identify common occurring vowels and consonants



  1. Course Content


Topics:

1-Articulatory phonetics



  • The vocal organs

  • Places of articulation

  • The oral-nasal process

  • Manners of articulation

  • The articulation of vowel sounds

2-Phonology and phonetic transcription

  • The transcription of consonants

  • The transcription of vowels

  • Transcription exercises

  • Consonant and Vowel charts

3-The consonants of English

  • Stop consonants

  • Fricatives

  • Affricates

  • Nasals

  • Approximants

  • Rules for English Consonant allophones

  • Diacritics



  1. Course Material

  • TEXT BOOK: Peter Lodefoged, A Course in Phonetics, Fourth edition. 2005 (available at Jarir)

  • Ladefoged's website. Contains all the chapters in his textbook and all exercises

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/contents.html

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