Guia docente 2010_11 Facultad de Filología y Traducción

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1. Introduction	1. Phonetics versus Phonology, phonetic transcriptions
2. Articulatory Phonetics	2. The production of speech
3. The English consonant system	3. Inventory, description, classification in terms of features, formulation of phonological rules, orthographic representation
4. The English vowel system	4. Cardinal vowels, inventory, description, classification in terms of features, orthographic representation
5. Major pronunciation varieties in the English-speaking world	5. RP, General American and Estuary English
6. English syllable structure	6. Monosyllabic and polysyllabic words, syllabification
7. Phonotactics	7. Onset phonotactics and rhyme phonotactics
8. Allophony	8. Principles of allophony, English allophones, rules of allophonic change
9. Phonological processes in speech	9. Assimilation, reduction, elision, linking
10. Stress and rhythm	10. Stress rules, stress timing vs. syllable timing