DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE, NIGERIA

EGL 202: INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL PHONETICS AND

PHONOLOGY II: PROSODIC ANALYSIS

COURSE OUTLINE (2019/2020 Session)

1. The phonic materials: the phonematic and the prosodic aspects
2. Revision of Phonemic Analysis: Phonemes, Minimal Pairs, Sounds in Free variation,
Allophones, etc.
3. The Speech Prosodies; their nature and their importance in communication
4. The domains of the prosodies; Beyond the phoneme in phonological analysis: The clause, the
phrase, the word, the syllable
5. The syllable structure 1: Simple Syllable Structures; syllable boundary, syllable counting
6. The syllable structure 2: Complex Syllable Structures, the Rime Pattern, syllable tree
7. Prosodic features of the syllable - Stress and Tone: their similarities and their differences
8. Levels of stress and tone: Representation of stress and tone
9. Tone in human language: levels, functions, representation
10. Word-stress patterns in selected languages
11. Intonation: Its nature, its use
12. Major intonation patterns and their functions in languages- grammatical and attitudinal, etc
13. Research questions?
14. Revision and Examination

SOME USEFUL TEXTS

1. Atoye, R. O., Soneye, T. O., Adejuwon, A. O., Faleye, J. O. & Fajobi, E. O. (2018). A
Handbook of Rudimentary Phonetics and Phonology for ESL Learners of Spoken English
(Revised Edition), Ibadan: Bookminds Publishers.
2. Abercrombie, David (1967) Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh: University Press,
1987 Edition.
3. Aremo, Bolaji (2001) Revision: Spoken English. Ibadan: Scribo Publications Limited

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4. Brosnahan and Malmberg (1970) Introduction to Phonetics. Cambridge: University Press.
5. Cruttenden, Alan (1986) Intonation. Cambridge: University Press.
6. Fatusin, Stephen A. (2007) An Introduction to the Phonetics and Phonology of English. Lagos:
Greenfield Publishers.
7. Gimson, A. C. (1980) An Introduction to the pronunciation of English. London: Edward
Arnold, 3rd Edition.
8. Katamba, Francis (1989) An introduction to Phonology. London: Longman.
9. Ladefoged, Peter (1971) Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics. University of Chicago Press,
1981 Edition.
10. Lass, Roger (1984) Phonology. Cambridge: University Press.
11. Roach, Peter (2000) English Phonetics and Phonology: A practical course. 3rd Edition.
Cambridge: University Press.
12. Wells, John C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. New Edition. London: Longman.
13. Wells, John C. (2006) English Intonation: an introduction. Cambridge: University Press.
14. English Pronouncing Dictionary by Daniel Jones, the 18th Edition.