University of Osnabrueck

Summer Term 2015

Claudia Lehmann

Phonology
14/04/2015

Syllabus
Date

Topic

Readings

1
2

14/04
21/04

Introduction
Phonetics

28/04

English
Phonemes I:
Consonants

05/05

English
Phonemes II:
Vowels

S&B (2011): ch. 1.

S&B (2011): ch. 2
+ inside front
cover.
S&B (2011): ch. 3
+ consonant table
(inside back
cover).
S&B (2011): ch. 4.

12/05

Allophonic
Variation

Test 1
S&B (2011): ch. 5
& 10.

19/05

26/05

Allophonic
Variation, contd.
Connected
Speech

Brinton (2000):
49ff.
S&B (2011): ch. 6
& 9.

02/06

The Syllable

09/06

Stress
Strong and Weak
Forms

Yava (2006): ch.

6.
Test 2
S&B (2011): 71
75, ch. 8.

1
0
1
1

16/06

Intonation I:
Forms
Intonation II:
Functions

23/06

Roach (1983): 112

135.
Roach (1983): 136
150.
Test 3

Further readings
Gut (2009): 13 36.

Roach (1983): 28 31,

37 52.

Roach (1983): 10 22.

S/B (2011): ch. 11

McMahon (2004): 36
51.

Roach (1983): 102

111.
Gimson / Cruttenden
(1994): 254 262.
S/B (2011): 65 71.

Yava (2006): 152

167.
Roach (1983): 86 93.
Knowles (1987): 101
102, 126 127.
Ladefoged (1993): 84
86.
S&B (2011): 119 123.
S&B (2011): 123f.

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Summer Term 2015
Claudia Lehmann

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30/06

tba

07/07

tba

14/07

tba

Phonology
14/04/2015

Bibliography
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Phonetics. London u.a.: Longman.
Ladefoged, P. (1993). A Course in Phonetics (3 , [internat ed.). Fort Worth, TX
u.a.: Harcourt Brace College Publ.
McMahon, A. (2004). An Introduction to English Phonology (Reprint ed.).
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.
Roach, P. (1983). English Phonetics and Phonology : A Practical Course.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Skandera, P., & Burleigh, P. (2011). A Manual of English Phonetics and
Phonology: Twelve Lessons with an Integrated Course in Phonetic
Transcription (2, completely rev ed.). Tbingen: Narr.
Yava, M. (2006). Applied English Phonology. Malden, Mass. u.a.: Blackwell
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