Phonology and Prosody [ LCLIG2210 ]

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An introductory course on phonetics and phonology of French or any other language.

Familiarize students with prosody theories, and more specifically French prosody. The course will address three main issues: prosodic corpus annotation (perceptual and automatic); relation forms-functions; interpretation of prosody within corpora.

By the end of the course,

• students will be familiar with the main theories and annotation tools in prosody, and able to apply them to a small excerpt of speech.
• The students will be able to read scientific articles in the domain critically
• and to apply some of the research methods to carry out a small scale personal research project.

Oral exam (70%) (personal research presentation). The active participation in class will also be taken into account in the attribution of the final mark (20%), as well as a test (10%) (prosodic annotation).

Flipped classroom: reading of the syllabus (complemented with scientific articles), classroom discussions, practical applications, presentation of a research project.

Main themes :

• Prosodic parameters
• Prosodic domains
• Functions of prosody
• Accentuation
• Intonation
• Pauses et hesitations
• Prosodic units
• Prosody and iconicity
• Rythm in speech
• Register
• Phonostylistique

For each theme, theoretical approaches and several methods of analysis.

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Syllabus + website (iCampus)