E-mail: <mark.clendon@adelaide.edu.au>
Consultations by appointment, Napier room 912a, ph 8313 4969

Lectures: Tuesday 2pm - 4pm, recordings available shortly after the lecture

Tutorials: Wednesday 9am - 11am

1. Be able to describe the general physical mechanisms underlying the production & perception of speech.
2. Be able to classify speech sounds according to vocal tract configuration, laryngeal activity and airflow.
3. Be able to utilise the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) in both ‘broad’ and ‘narrow’ transcription of speech, and to work with other practical orthographies in speech transcription.
4. Be able to identify the role of stress, intonation, pitch and duration in the production & perception of speech.
5. Perform a phonemic analysis of any given language, drawing on notions of minimal pairs, contrastive vs complementary distribution, conditioning of allophones & free variation.
6. Identify the distinctive features of any given set of phonemes.
7. Explain the concept of ‘underlying phonological form’, drawing on examples from a variety of languages.
8. Formulate phonological and phonetic realisation rules, having regard to rule ordering principles.
9. Understand the basic principles of Phonological Typology.
10. Undertake comparisons of conventional vs non-linear approaches to phonological representation.

Odden, David, 2013, Introducing Phonology, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press

Clark, John E, Yallop, C & Fletcher, J 2007, An introduction to phonetics and phonology, 3rd edition, Blackwell 

Goldsmith, JA, Riggle, J & Yu, ACL 2011, The handbook of phonological theory, 2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell

Gussenhoven, C. 2004, The Phonology of Tone and Intonation, Cambridge University Press.

Gussenhoven, Carlos & Jacobs, H 2017, Understanding phonology, 3rd edition, Hodder Education

Kennedy, R. 2016, Phonology: A Coursebook, Cambridge:University Press

McMahon, AMS 2002, An introduction to English phonology, Edinburgh University Press

Zsiga, EC 2013, The sounds of language an introduction to phonetics and phonology, Wiley-Blackwell

Relevant information, notes and readings for the course may be found on MyUni.
Lectures will be recorded and put on MyUni.
Assignments should be submitted electronically on Turnitin.

There are 4 contact hours per week.

LECTURES

Lectures are delivered face-to-face in a two hour block. The first hour is generally spent outlining key concepts, while the second hour is generally a more 'applied' session, involving, for example, extended phonetic & transcription practice, experimenting with machine analysis, developing problem-solving techniques etc

Lectures are recorded; the videos are made available through Echo 360 shortly after class & are subsequently embedded in the weekly module. However, students are strongly encouraged to attend the live lectures so that they can benefit from the on-the-spot demonstration, guidance and interactive learning of the face-to-face context. 

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are also conducted in on-campus face-to-face mode. Tutorials are focused on developing practical speech production & transcription skills, and on building effective techniques for phonological analysis and problem solving, via a combination of small group work and whole of class demonstration & discussion. 

Tutorials will also be recorded &, with the permission of participants, made available to members of the tutorial group for catch-up and review purposes. However, the tutorial is designed as a hands-on learning experience; you only benefit from it if you apply yourself to the activities and problems presented to you. Reviewing the tutorial recordings is therefore no substitute for actual attendance, especially since only the whole of class discussion, and not the small group interaction, is able to be captured on the recording. 

Tutorial attendance is therefore compulsory, and attendance lists will be kept. If you are unable to attend a tutorial you need to notify the Course Coordinatoras soon as possible. You may sometimes be asked to supply documentation of the reasons for your absence, you may sometimes be asked to complete and submit some catch-up exercises. 

1 x 2-hour lecture/workshop per week (x12) 24 hours
1 x 2-hour tutorial per week (x12) 24 hours
4 hours Practicals/Reading per week (x12) 48 hours
3 hours Assignment Preparation per week (x12) 36 hours
2 hours Research per week (X 12) 24 hours
TOTAL 156 hours

Lecture outline: please note that this is a guide only, and may not be in this order; fuller details will be given during the semester.

Week 1
About this Course |  The phoneme (Odden Ch1 & Ch2)

Week 2
Speech mechanisms and the classification of sounds (Odden Ch1 & Ch2, plus supplementary material)

Week 3
Distinctive features (Odden Ch3)

Week 4
Underlying representations (Odden Ch4)

Week 5
Interacting processes (Odden Ch5)

Week 6
Doing analysis (Odden Ch6)

Week 7
Historical Phonology (supplementary material)

Week 8
Non-linear representations (Odden Ch9)

Week 9
Typology & Naturalness (Odden Ch7)

Week 10
Abstractness & psychological reality (Odden Ch8)

Week 11
Review: key concepts; rule formulation; problem-solving techniques (supplementary material)

Week 12
Contemporary phonological theory (supplementary material)

Week 13
Revision - no classes

Week 14
Online test 

There will be three assignments in phonological/phonetic analysis (due in Week 3, Week 6 & Week 9), together with a final online test reviewing the work of the whole semester to be made available in Week 14. All assignments are of equal weight. ie. each assignment counts for 25% of your overall mark.             

All four assessment components must be completed in order to pass the course.

Submission of assignments:

1. All assignments are to be submitted by 5pm on the due date, through the relevant assignment upload facility in MyUni.
2. Uploaded assignments must have file names that include (a) your name and/or student number & (b) the number/name of the assignment. 
3. Unless otherwise approved by the coordinator, each assignment must be submitted as a single file.
4. Always keep a copy of your work, as ocasionally files can go astray in MyUni. 
5. All assignments must be in grammatical English, and must be set out in a coherent, readable manner.
6. Extensions should in the first instance be negotiated through the Course Coordinator, as far as possible prior to the due date.
7. Extensions will normally require a doctor’s certificate, counsellor’s certificate or similar proof/documentation.
8. Assignments submitted late with no extension will be penalised at 2% per day for up to 7 days, and will not be accepted thereafter. 

Assignment #1 – Distinguishing & transcribing speech sounds
Assignment #2 – Analysing phonemes
Assignment #3 – Formulating Phonological Rules
Test – Practical analyses & short answer questions ranging over the content of lectures, tutorials & prescribed readings across the semester.

Assignments are to be submitted through MyUni.