Phonetics and Phonology
Professor Shi Baohui
School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Forestry University
September 2006
Time: Wednesday 8-11
Place: Rm 101
1. Key Readings:
The basic text is:
Shi Baohui. 2006. Introducing Phonetics and Phonology. Handout.
The required readings are:
Odden, David. 2005. Introducing Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Yavaş, Mehmet. 2006. Applied English Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Clark, John & Colin Yallop. 1995. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 2/e. Oxford:
Blackwell. Reprinted by FLTRP, 2001.
Kager, René. 1999. Optimality Theory. Chapters 1-2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reprinted by FLTRP, 2001.
(See overleaf for a longer list of references.)
2. Lecture List
Week
Content
Texts
2
Introduction
Shi: Ch. 1; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 1.
3
Speech
Production, IPA
4
Consonants
Shi: Ch. 2; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 6;
Odden: Ch. 1; Yavaş: Chs. 1 & 5.
Shi: Ch. 3; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 2;
Odden: Ch. 2.2; Yavaş: Ch. 3.
5
6
7
8
Readings
Durand & Laks;
Fant_50 years;
Ladefoged_50 years;
Ohala_1991.
National Holiday & Reading Week
Vowels,
coarticulation
Phonological
processes &
phonological rules
Generative
phonology
Shi: Chs. 4-5; Clark & Yallop: Chs.
2-3; Odden: Ch. 2.1, 2.3; Yavaş: Ch. 4.
Odden_transcription;
Durand_vowel;
Odden_phoneme
Shi: Ch. 6; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 4;
Odden: Chs. 3-4; Yavaş: Ch. 2.
Odden_underlying
Clark & Yallop: Ch.5; Odden: Ch. 5.
Odden_interacting
9
Feature Theory
10
Suprasegmentals
11
Non-linear
Theories
Shi: Ch. 7; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 10;
Odden: Chs. 6-9.
Shi: Ch. 8; Clark & Yallop: Ch. 9;
Yavaş: Chs. 6-7.
Shi: Ch. 9 (McCarthy 1982); Clark &
Yallop: Ch. 11; Odden: Ch. 10.
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Optimality Theory
Shi: Ch. 10; Kager: Chs. 1-2.
Odden_feature
Odden_prosody
Prince &
Smolensky_OT
3. Assessment
This is based on attendance, coursework, and mainly a paper at the end of the course.
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4. Bibliography
(* has been reprinted by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press; ** has been reprinted by
Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press; *** has been reprinted by Peking University Press.)
Abercrombie, David. 1967. Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press.
Ashby, Michael & John Maidment. 2005. Introducing Phonetic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Bolinger, Dwight L. 1989. Intonation and Its Uses. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Brakel, Arthur. 1983. Phonological Markedness and Distinctive Features. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press.
Catford, J.C. 2001. A Practical Introduction to Phonetics. 2/e. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Celce-Murcia, Marianne, Donna M. Brinton & Janet M. Goodwin. 1996. Teaching Pronunciation:
A Reference for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Chomsky, Noam & Morris Halle. 1968. The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row.
*Clark, John & Colin Yallop. 1995. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 2/e. Oxford:
Blackwell.
***Cruttenden, Alan. 1997. Intonation. 2/e. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Duanmu, San. 2000. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Durand, Jacques. 1990. Generative and Non-Linear Phonology. London: Longman.
Durand, Jacques & Bernard Laks. (eds.) 2002a. Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Durand, Jacques & Bernard Laks. 2002b. Phonology, Phonetics, and Cognition. In Durand & Laks
(eds.), pp. 10-50.
Ewen, Colin J. & Harry van der Hulst. 2001. The Phonological Structure of Words: An
Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Giegerich, Heinz J. 1992. English Phonology: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
*Gimson, A. C. & Alan Cruttenden. 2001. Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. 6th ed. London:
Arnold.
Goldsmith, J. A. 1990. Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Goldsmith, J. A. (ed.) 1995. The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Goldsmith, J. A. (ed.) 1999. Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gussenhoven, Carlos. 2004. The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
*Gussenhoven, Carlos & Haike Jacobs. 1998. Understanding Phonology. London: Arnold.
Gussmann, Edmund. 2002. Phonology: Analysis and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Halle, Morris & G. N. Clements. 1983. Problem Book in Phonology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.
Halle, Morris & Jean-Roger Vergnaud. 1990. An Essay on Stress. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.
Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hardcastle, William J. & John Laver. 1997. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Oxford:
Blackwell.
Hyman, Larry M. 1975. Phonology: Theory and Analysis. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
International Phonetic Association. 1999. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Jones, Daniel. 1962. Outline of English Phonetics. Cambridge: Heffer.
**Jones, Daniel. 1997. English Pronouncing Dictionary. 15/e. (edited by Peter Roach and James
Hartman). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*Kager, René. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kenstowicz, Michael. 1994. Phonology in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ladefoged, Peter. 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics. 2/e. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2001. A Course in Phonetics. 4/e. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2005a. A Course in Phonetics. 5th ed. New York: Harcourt.
Ladefoged, Peter. 2005b. Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages.
2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lass, Roger. 1984. Phonology: An Introduction to Basic Concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Laver, John. 1994. Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Makkai, Valerie Becker. 1978. Phonological Theory: Evolution and Current Practice. Lake Bluff,
Illinois: Jupiter Press.
McCarthy, John J. 2002. A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
McCarthy, John J. 2004. Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
Odden, David. 2005. Introducing Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky. 2004. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative
Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ramsaran, Susan. (ed.) 1990. Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume
in Honour of A. C. Gimson. London: Routledge.
*Roach, Peter. 2000. English Phonetics and Phonology. 3/e. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
**Roach, Peter. 2001. Phonetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Roca, Iggy. 1994. Generative Phonology. London: Routledge.
Roca, Iggy & Wyn Johnson. 1999. A Course in Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Schane, Sanford A. 1973. Generative Phonology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Schmerling, S. F. 1976. Aspects of English Sentence Stress. Austin & London: University of Texas
Press.
Sloat, Clarence, Sharon Henderson Taylor & James E. Hoard. 1978. Introduction to Phonology.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Spencer, Andrew. 1996. Phonology: Theory and Application. Oxford: Blackwell.
*Upton, Clive, William Kretzschmar, & Rafal Konopka. 2003. Oxford Dictionary of
Pronunciation for Current English. New edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wells, John. 2000. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. 2/e. Harlow: Pearson. Reprinted by the
Commercial Press, Beijing, 2005.
Yavas, Mehmet. 2006. Applied English Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
***Yip, Moira. 2002. Tone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
史宝辉. 2006(将出版).《音系学导论》. 北京: 北京大学出版社.
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