Maranatha Baptist Bible College & Seminary
GCC 509 Linguistics
Phonetics, Phonology, & Pragmatics
May 7-18, 2012 Module
Course Description
A study of the sound units of language: phonetics, phonology, and pragmatics. Focused on aiding in language acquisition.
Course Textbooks
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Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics (10th edition), Anouschka Bergmann, Kathleen Currie Hall,
and Sharon Miriam Ross [note that we will be using the 10th edition, not the newer 11th edition]
Articulatory Phonetics: Tools for Analyzing the World’s Languages (4th edition), by Anita C. Bickford and Rick Floyd
Graduate students only: Phonological Analysis: A Functional Approach (2nd edition), by Donald Burquest.
Each day there is a reading assignment due. You are responsible to have completed reading assignments before class. If you cannot finish them all or are
having trouble understanding the Course Notes reading, then finish the Textbook reading before class and do the Course Notes reading with the
Textbook reading for the next day. Make sure you read the instructions on e-Racer for the assignments.
Assignments and Due Dates (See course calendar below for details assignments)
Lab Assignments - Bring Earphones to Lab
Typically, the chapter name is given and then the specific sections or languages in that chapter than you are to practice are listed. Do not do the
whole chapter unless told to do so; just do the listed sections. Keep the IPA Chart in front of you and find each sound as you study it. This is
particularly important for the English sounds as what you are trying to learn is not the sound (which you already know) but how they are formed
in your mouth and where they are in relation to other sounds. When you do the IPA drills on the computer, make sure the entire table is visible
on the screen, because sometimes it cuts out. Sometimes the sound quality isn't the greatest. Rely on the class time for knowing how to form
the sounds in your mouth; the computer is just a helpful tool (sometimes more helpful than at other times). The IPA game can also be a useful
tool in preparing for the oral & written phonetics tests. The daily assignments are laid out so you can do a little each day and cover all the sounds
as we cover them in class. There is not a required amount of time you must spend on the lab assignments. You need to do them all one time;
you may choose to repeat some to help you prepare for the oral quiz and test. You may do them during our lab times if I am not covering other
material. There is generally enough time during lab time to get through all the lab assignments one time. Sometimes the sounds are not clear in
the IPA game, particularly for the vowels. You may find that http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html is a better source, but if we all log into it
in lab, we'll probably bring down the MBBC network. In your study time you might find it helpful, however.
Tests and Quizzes
1. Oral Quiz (50 possible points) You will be expected to say the corresponding English consonantal sound when I list the voicing and place &
manner of articulation for the sound. You will do this for each of the consonants underlined on the IPA chart
2. Written Quiz (50 possible points) You will need to be able to identify all the parts of the vocal tract, the upper and lower articulator for all
the places of articulation along with any English sounds that correspond to them (see copy in Course Notes in Day 2a).
3. Phonetics Oral Final Exam (70 possible points). You will be expected to give the consonant sound of all the characters in the IPA when you
see their corresponding symbol (in random order). You will be expected to be able to say all the vowels (except central mid) in the any order
you choose from the IPA chart. To be taken Thursday, May 17 at scheduled times.
4. Phonetics Written Final Exam (70 possible points) A sample test can be found on pages 95-100 in your class notes. This is exactly how your
test will be except there will also be a section like Section D from Day 3’s homework. You will have to give the definitions for the place &
manner of articulation and key terms like “allophone.” There will be a section similar to Section D in the Course in Phonetics Homework. You
will have to give the voicing, place & manner of articulation for every pulmonic consonant on the IPA chart. You will have to give the
fronting, height, and roundedness for each vowel on the IPA chart. The IPA symbols will be given in random order, but there will be blank
charts provided in case being able to map them out visually helps you. The tests will be taken online by Monday, May 21 at 9am. You will
have an hour to take the test. You cannot have anything with you except a pencil/pen.
5. Phonology Final Exam (70 possible points) – The final problem will be given to you the last day of class. You must turn it in to the Registrar’s
Office or in another location (TBA) by 9 AM Monday, May 21. Any that are not in by 9 AM will not be graded. You can use anything at your
disposal to help you solve the problem (yes, including internet resources or language books you might find). The point is to make it a similar
experience to doing phonological analysis on the field. Having said that, you are to work alone – just making sure you can pull your own
weight and not expect other missionaries to do your work for you.
Grading
Quizzes
Final Exams
Daily Assignments
Daily Journal
100 points
210 points
165 points
100 points
Total possible points
575
Grading Scale
94-100
93-92
91-90
85-89
84-83
A
AB+
B
B-
82-81
75-80
74-73
64-72
63-0
C+
C
CD
F
Late Work
To encourage you in the development and strengthening of your time management skills, the Seminary has established a Late Academic
Work Policy. This policy is the minimum penalty for work not turned in on time. The professor may impose a greater penalty, but not a
lesser. Work not turned in on the day it is due will have its grade reduced 4% for each calendar day that it is late. The Seminary realizes that
serious extenuating circumstances, such as a lengthy illness or a death in the family, may prevent some students from completing class
projects on time. Requests for appropriate extensions for these types of serious circumstances may be made to the Seminary Academic
Senate, via a written petition submitted to the Seminary Office. Extensions will only be given for valid excuses. Everyone is busy; therefore,
being busy is not an excuse for an extension. Projects turned in under an allowed extension will not be graded higher than a B.
Collaboration
Collaboration (cooperation of students with each other in preparation for a class) is a legitimate learning experience. However, faculty expect that a
student that a student will initially do his own work.
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It is acceptable for a student who filled out his daily assignment, but was unable to find an answer or did not understand one of the questions to
ask for help from another student. It is not acceptable for a student who failed to do his daily assignment to ask to borrow his neighbor’s daily
assignment to cram for the quiz.
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It is acceptable for a group of students, after doing their own initial work, to compare answers and to quiz each other over the test or quiz
questions. It is not acceptable for a student who has done little or no personal preparation to join such a study group.
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It is acceptable for a student who was absent from class to obtain notes from another student for the day he was absent. It is not acceptable for
a student who did not feel like taking notes, or who was working on other class work, to obtain notes from another student. It is also
unacceptable for a student to use notes or study guides from a prior semester.
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It is acceptable to use another student’s paper for help on the form and structure, but it is not acceptable to use content from that paper for his
own paper. It is also unacceptable to use material from a book or article without citing that material in the paper.
Attendance Policy
During summer school, absences are not allowed. Special exceptions apply, but all students are expected to be present at all times.
Make-up Policy
Tests and/or quizzes missed must be made up within one week of the class in which the test or quiz was given.
Course Calendar
Day
Day 1
May 7
Topic in Class
General Phonetics
General Phonology
Day 2
May 8
Phonemes
Place & Manner of
Articulation
Hierarchy
Day 3
May 9
Allophones
English Consonants &
Vowels
Syllables
Foundational Principles
1
Lab Assignment for Tonight
VC1: “1. Sounds & Languages –
the IPA chart sounds.” Note all
English consonants on chart (i.e.,
anything on table in chapter 6).
“6. Sounds of Consonants.”
CP5: “2. Phonology and Phonetic
Transcription.” Note all
consonants on Table 2.1.
VC: “1. Sounds & Languages –
the IPA chart sounds.” Note all
English vowels on chart (i.e.,
anything in section 3.5 of chapter
3).
“3. Vowel Contrast.” Note
sections 3.5 (“Vowels of
American English”; note that the
pronunciation of "Buddhist" is
not standard American English) &
3.6 “(Vowels of BBC English”)
Vowels & Consonants (Blackwell, 2nd edition) (VC).
Articulatory Phonetics (AP)
3 Language Files 10th edition (LF)
4 Language Acquisition Made Practical (LAMP)
5 A Course in Phonetics (Ladefoged, 5th edition) (CP).
6 Phonological Analysis (PhA)
7 For all underlined passages, ignore information on American/alternative symbol systems.
2
Textbook
Reading due
today
2
AP : 123-126
LF3: 3-16, 3844, 101-108
Course Notes
Reading due
Today
LAMP4: 247-250
Wiki: Phoneme,
Phoneme &
Allophone
AP: 1-6
LF: 45-53
UDEL Articles (2)
on Phonology &
Allophones
PhA6: 1-13
Journal (10 pts each)
Etic/Emic paragraph (10
PhA: 147-149,
151
Wiki: Affricates
Journal
LF: 54-63
AP: 11-13, 1517, 23-26, 3138, 43-457, 126
Assignments on e-Racer
due Today
Definitions (10 pts)
pts)
CP handout: ch. 1—A, B,
D (1-13), & E (20 pts total
assignment)
Quizzes/Tests
Day
Day 4
May 10
Day 5
May 11
Topic in Class
Consonants
Vowels (nasals & glides)
Doing Phonological
Analysis; Contrast,
Complementary
Distribution, Free
Variation
Day 6
May 14
Secondary Articulation
Phonetically Similar
Segments
Lab Assignment for Tonight
Textbook
Reading due
today
AP: 55-58, 7778, 89-91, 9596, 99-101,
109-1114, 129133, 141-142,
157-158
Course Notes
Reading due
Today
VC: “1. Sounds & Languages – the
IPA chart sounds.” Note all
Nasals, Lateral Fricatives, Lateral
Approximants, & Approximants.
“14. Consonants around the
world.” Note Ewe, Nunngubuyu,
Aleut, Polish, Toda.
CP: “7. Consonantal Gestures.”
Note Ewe, V'enen Taut, Polish, &
French.
AP: 49-534, 7375
LF: 127-133
PhA: 31-39, 4045 (we will cover
40-45 in class so
just skim those
pages)
Journal
VC: “1. Sounds & Languages – the
IPA chart sounds.” Note all
Vowels.
“3. Vowel Contrast.” Listen to
3.1-4 Vowels of Spanish,
Hawaiian, Swahili & Japanese.”
(note the differing qualities of
the same 5 vowels)
CP: “9. Vowels & Vowel like
Articulations.”
Note “Russian Palatalization” and
Performance Exercises.
AP: 115-116,
161-164, 173174
PhA: 51-60
PSS charts
(Just familiarize
Journal
VC: “1. Sounds & Languages – the
IPA chart sounds.” Note all
Plosives & Fricatives.
CP: “7. Consonantal Gestures.”
Do Performance Exercises A,B,C
and D & E.
Assignments on e-Racer
due Today
Quizzes/Tests
Journal
LF Exercises (15 pts): Ex 19
(p. 91), Ex 22 (p. 92)–
[a]=[] and [r]=[]. Do not
do the work in your book.
Write it out on a separate
piece of paper & turn it in.
yourself with
them. Read the
material on the
bottom and look
at the chart to see
what they are
talking about so
you’re not trying
to do that while
I’m talking about
Oral Quiz at
CP handout: ch. 1—C, D time on signup sheet
(14-18), & F (Complete
Sammy diagrams for F) (15 Written Quiz
In Class
points total assignment)
(See
description of
quizzes at the
beginning of
this syllabus)
LF handout (15 pts):
Ukrainian (p. 134), Italian (p.
140), Korean (p. 141). WRITE
OUT THE FOREIGN WORDS;
do not refer to them with
letters, #’s, or the Engl. gloss.
(You will turn in your work
on a sep. piece of paper.) t
is an affricate [] - treat
as a single phone not [t] +
[](continued next page)
Day
Day 7
May 15
Topic in Class
Pragmatics
Natural Phonological
Process
Day 8
May 16
Review Process of
Solving Phonology
Problems
Vowel Quality:
Nasalization,
Diphthongs, Lengthened
& Doubled
Language Variation
Day 9
May 17
NPPs Conditioned by
Syllable Structure &
Larger Units
Suprasegmental
Features
Intonation/Pitch
Stress & Tone
Lab Assignment for Tonight
Textbook
Reading due
today
Course Notes
Reading due
Today
Assignments on e-Racer
due Today
them in class.)
Natural class = sounds that
share phonological features
(for example [t] & [s] are in a
natural class of alveolars)
CP: “2. Phonology & Phonetic
Transcription.” Do Performance
Exercises.
“7. Consonantal Gestures.” Note
Malayalam, Quechua, Zulu,
Italian.
LF: 109-116,
268-296 (ch. 7)
Rensch: 171-172
PhA: ch. 4 (grad
students only)
Journal
VC: “13. Consonants around the
world.” Note Malayalam, Melpa,
Zulu.
LF: 406-433
(ch. 10)
AP: 81-83, 8586
Sounds of the
World’s
Languages: 321322
CP: 70-73
LAMP: 286
PhA: 168-179,
211-224 (grad
students only)
Journal
VC: “2. Pitch and Loudness.” Note LF: 64-68
all sections (2.1-13).
AP: 61-67, 69CP: “10. Syllables &
71
Suprasegmental Features.” Note
Danish Vowels, Thai & Chinese
Standard Tones, Japanese &
Performance Exercises F & G.
“11. Linguistic Phonetics.” Note
Burmese.
Dict. Of
Phonetics &
Phonology: 386387
Stress in
Spanish
Journal
CP: “9. Vowels & Vowel like
Articulations.” Note Nasalized
French Vowels (note contrast
between nasal and oral vowels).
Quizzes/Tests
PhA handout (15 pts):
Problems P11 & P12 (p. 74)
LF handout (20 pts): Spanish
(p. 142), German (p. 143) &
Ukrainian (p. 144).
Phonology Problem 38 (20
pts).
Oral Final at
time on signup sheet
Day
Topic in Class
Lab Assignment for Tonight
Day 10
May 18
Air Stream Mechanisms:
Glottals
VC: “1. Sounds & Languages – the
IPA chart sounds.” Note all Nonpulmonic Consonants.
“13. Consonants around the
world.” Note Kele & Titan,
Southern Swedish, Nama.
CP: “6. Airstream Mechanisms &
Phonation Types.” Note
everything.
Orthography
Textbook
Reading due
today
LF: 545-558
(sec. 13.4)
optional: AP:
137-139, 145156, 185-186
Course Notes
Reading due
Today
-Rensch: 155158
-Sequoyah’s
Original
Syllabary
-Numbers in
Various Writing
Systems
Assignments on e-Racer
due Today
Journal
Phonology Problem 45 (25
pts).
Note for those taking GCC 610: LF Ch 5-14 (except 8 & 10 which you've already completed) are due by the beginning of the second week of the module.
Quizzes/Tests
Written
Phonetics
Final on eRacer (see
sample in
Class Notes)
WRITTEN
PHONOLOGY
FINAL DUE
MONDAY
9am