Phonetics and phonology course

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Phonetics, phonology, accent, dialect, IPA, RP and AmE, alphabet, phonemes
The meaning of utterance in phonetics

IPA table

Studying the symbols of IPA to be able to recognize them in dictionaries

Pronunciation and sounds

Organs of Speech
Consonants, voicing, place and manner of articulation

Pronunciation and sounds (cont’d)

Vowels (monophthongs, diphthongs, short, long, rounding, voicing, strong, weak vowels), the schwa

Morpho-phonemics

morphophonemic rules, plural formation, the formation of present and past participle verbs

Dictionaries and transcription

How to use the dictionary symbols (being exposed to different dictionaries with variety of phonetic alphabet symbols (other than IPA)
Practicing Transcription and decoding

Syllable and stress

Dividing words into syllables
Syllable stress
Syllable stress rules

Sentence stress

Sentence stress
Weak form (the schwa again)

Minimal Pairs, allophones, homophones

What are minimal pairs, allophones and homophones, and how they affect understanding of the language

Intonation

Falling, rising and more complicated intonation patterns
Tone, pitch and length

Other phonological rules

Assimilation, elision, juncture, liaison..etc..

 

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, candidates would be able to:
1- Differentiate between spelling alphabet and phonemes
2- Search for the pronunciation of any word in the dictionary, using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
3- Recognize the features of the different sounds of the language, making use of that in predicting the correct pronunciation of any new word they encounter.
4- Divide the word into syllables and know which part of the word would be stressed according to word stress rules.
5- Use sentence stress rules and rhyme, as well as intonation, whether falling or rising.
6- Maintain a neutral international accent that is recognized by any English speaker, without using a heavy accent or dialect.
7- Distinguish between the different accents and dialects through pronunciation differences.

 

Course details :

Course time : 24 Hours

Course duration :  5 days/week – 5 hours/day 

Course fees : 3000 EGP

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