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Course Outline for Spring Semester 2002 The following issues/activities will be covered in the course, mostly in
this order. But this is not a
week-by-week schedule: if we have
not finished a topic we will continue to discuss it in the next week’s lesson.
1: Introduction: Aims, Names, Materials, Assignments, Grading. 2: Voiced and Unvoiced segments:
eg the pronunciation of <s>. 3: Morphophonemics of {s}
and {ed}. 4: Introduce morphological analysis of words: affixes.
5. Syllable stress.
The pronunciation of stressed and unstressed syllables
6: Pronunciation of longer words. 7: The articulatory
phonetics of vowels. 8: Vowel length alternation 9: Pronunciation of
/æ/, /e/ and /ε/ 10: Pronunciation and
meaning of longer words. 11: Long vowels and diphthongs. 12: Mid-term Presentations 13: Consonant clusters,
especially those involving /s/ and /l/. 14: ‘silent’ letters. 15: Phrase, clause/sentence stress and intonation. 16: Listening comprehension (note-taking) 17. Prepared class
discussion. American vs British
(and other) English Pronunciations.
18. Course Revision and Assessment. 19. Hand in Notebooks for grading. Materials:
You will need a medium sized notebook
in which to write all the vocabulary and pronunciation that you learn in this
course, plus tips about pronunciation and phonetics.
For
classwork and assignments we
will use passages from the short story "An Outpost of Progress" by
Joseph Conrad, which can be downloaded from this link--- Conrad_story) An introductory Phonetics text is available on this link --- Introductory Phonetics A
more detailed but equally introductory text is Peter Ladefoged’s A Course
in Phonetics, available in METU Library. See the bottom of this page for more links to useful pronunciation sites and programmes.
You will need
a
good dictionary that includes very advanced
vocabulary and reliable phonetic transcripts (pronunciation).
This means a monolingual English dictionary, NOT COBUILD. Check
whether your dictionary gives US or British pronunciation (best is both).
If you want to develop into an American-style speaker of English, or a
British-style one then you should make sure your dictionary contains the
relevant information. Grading:
All assignments are graded, as are the
notebooks . Exams will be in the
form of brief spoken presentations. 30% or more non-attendance will result in
the grade of NA, which is the equivalent of FF.
More Links To hear the sounds of the IPA, go to: http://lc.ust.hk/~learn/pl/ipa.htm A useful dictionary programme, that will give you the meaning and (US style) pronunciation of any English word on which you click and point, can be downloaded from www.babylon.com The phonetics site of University College London has some excellent and useful tutorials and links. Go to: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/ and follow links through 'educational resources' to such pages as 'English pronunciation tip of the day', 'sound of the IPA', 'audio tapes' and 'web tutorials' For mostly British speech you can listen to live or archived BBC programmes through BBC Online Homepage - Welcome and BBC World Service - Home Page For mostly US speech you can listen to CNN programmes through www.cnn.com Particularly useful is their transcript service, through which you can get print-outs of what you are listening to. Server has told us of an excellent site that provides the definition and (written) pronunciation from 14 or 15 dictionaries, including good ones like Websters. This is http://oneword.com 
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