Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Simon Anne-Catherine;
Language
French
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
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
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By the end of the course,
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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”.
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
Teaching methods
Flipped classroom: reading of the syllabus (complemented with scientific articles), classroom discussions, practical applications, presentation of a research project.
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).
Other information
Syllabus + website (Moodle)
Online resources
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Teaching materials
- Prosodie du français. Perception, modélisation et analyse (syllabus disponible à la DUC)
- Exercices auditifs d’après William A. Smalley "Manual of Articulatory Phonetics" (1964) (livret imprimé disponible à la DUC)
Faculty or entity
LING
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [60] in Modern Languages and Literatures : General
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Foreign Language
Master [120] in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English
Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
Master [60] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
Master [120] in Linguistics
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
Master [120] in Modern Languages and Literatures : General