Phonology and Prosody

LCLIG2210  2016-2017  Louvain-la-Neuve

Phonology and Prosody
5.0 credits
30.0 h
2q

Teacher(s)
Simon Anne-Catherine ;
Language
Français
Online resources

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Prerequisites

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

Main themes

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.

Aims

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.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Evaluation methods

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).

Teaching methods

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

Content

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.

Bibliography

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Other information

Syllabus + website (iCampus)

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Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Program title
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Modern Languages and Letters : German, Dutch and English
5
-

Master [60] in Modern Languages and Letters : General
5
-

Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Letters : French as a Second Language
5
-

Master [120] in Linguistics
5
-

Master [60] in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General
5
-

Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General
5
-

Master [120] in Modern Languages and Letters : General
5
-

Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Letters
5
-