WELCOME (BACK) TO ENGLISH PHONETICS!!

 


 

Textbook

English Pronunciation for Better Communication  (Mitsue Tamae Allen), Eichosha

Please bring it to class every week!

 

Syllabus

 

秋学期 Suprasegmental Phonology: Syllables, Stress, Rhythm and Intonation 

 

For your grade: 出席  小論文提出(試験はありません)

 

Longer report on comparative phonology of English and another language of your choice.

 

1.      テキストL 61- 62 liaison  Overlapping gestures  Reduced forms 

 

2.      Whaddaya say

 

3.  中間発表 1 Vowels and Consonants

 

4.      テキストL 63 Syllables vs. mora 

 

5.      テキストL 64 Word stress    Strong and weak forms of English words

 

6.      テキストL 65 Sentence stress  Grammar and Stress

 

7.      中間発表  2  Syllables and stress

 

8.      テキストL 66 Rhythm + poetry 

 

9.      Rhyme        

 

10.  テキストL 67-68 Intonation   CD 5.9 – Intonation

 

11.  Phonics, phonological awareness + sound spelling harmony   vowels

 

12.  中間発表 Rhythm and intonation

 

13.  introduction to acoustic phonetics Speech synthesis demonstration

 

 小論文提出

 

Links    

IPA and Segmental Phonology

IPA chart  Vowels  Consonants   Other symbols and diacritics (from Lagevoged, A Course in Phonetics)

http://www.fonetiks.org/

Sounds of American English (American English library) from University of Iowa

American Accent Training http://www.americanaccent.com/

Pronunciation  http://learnit.gocomp.com/pron.html

Suprasegmental Phonology

       English vs. Japanese Stress and Rhythm (from Matthews, Phonetics)                           

 

World Englishes

      http://eleaston.com/world-eng.html excellent collection of links, including:

    http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/  speech accent archive

    http://www.ukans.edu/~idea/index2.html International Dialects of English archive

    http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/index.html Varieties of (western) Englishes

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml the audio archive

 

春学期 Introduction to Segmental Phonemes 

For your grade: 出席   前期末筆記試験   Write a short paper comparing the consonants in English and Japanese. /due in 9th class/

Write a short paper comparing the vowels in English and Japanese. /due in 13th class/

 

 

-2.テキスト i—xii  Introduction: articulatory, acoustic, auditory phonetics

 IPA chart  Vowels vs. Consonants (from Lagevoged, A Course in Phonetics)

 Sounds of American English

CONSONANTS

For Reference: English Phonetics and Phonological Theory by Dan Mateescu (online) especially:

           http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/filologie/mateescu/pdf/37.pdf

3.      4.テキスト L 1—6  stops minimal pairs  The American T   Intervocalic /t/  allophones of stop consonants

5.キスト L 7—17, 25—27  fricatives   TH

6.キスト L 18—24   affricates      テキスト L 29—30  R + L Allophones of /l/ in British English

7.テキスト L 30——35 nasals   assimilation    Nasal plosion  テキスト L 36—39  liquids, flaps

8.Phonological rules (Lu), Phonetic vs. Phonemic Transcription of consonants

9.Consonants in World Englishes    Short paper 1 due

        VOWELS

For Reference: English Phonetics and Phonological Theory by Dan Mateescu (online) especially:

           http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/filologie/mateescu/pdf/37.pdf

10.                         テキスト L 40—48 front vowels I and E   Japanese vowels  

11.                         テキスト L 49—56 back vowels Bat? Bought? But?

12.                         テキスト L 57—60 diphthongs and vowel shortening  The Vowels of English (stressed, unstressed, reduced) unstressed vowels CD 5.6

13.   Vowels in World Englishes   Short paper 2 due

 

 

主題

英語音声学Iでは、英語のsegmental phonemes(分節音素:子音と母音)について集中的に学習し、日本語と比較する。英語音声学IIは、英語音声学Iを基礎に、他の言語と比較しながら、さらにsuprasegmental phonemes (超分節音素:リズム、アクセント、イントネーションなど)の原理を学ぶ。

 

履修上の注意

授業はバイリンガルで行います。出席と締め切りが大切です!

 

参考文献

 

『演習英語音声学』安藤賢一著、1700円、成美堂。

『最新英語音声学』池浦 貞賢 泉 マス子 板倉武子、1700円、SEIBIDO

『最新英語音声学教本』三宅川正 増山節夫、1800円、THE EIHOSHA

 

単位認定お方法・基準

 

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sford/research/tutoring/