LING 2040 - Phonology: Language Sounds and Sound Systems
North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2025
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code LING 2040 Course Phonology: Language Sounds and Sound Systems Coordinating Unit European Languages, and Linguistics Term Semester 1 Level Undergraduate Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 4 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y Prerequisites At least 12 units of Level I undergraduate study, including LING 1101 Incompatible LING 2012, LING 3012, LING 3038 Assessment 3 x 1000 word or equivalent practical assignments - 75%, 1500 word or equivalent exam - 25% Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Ian Green
E-mail: <ian.green@adelaide.edu.au>
Consultations by appointment, email ian.green@adelaide.edu.au or phone/text 0438 756 936 to arrangeCourse Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .
Lectures: livestreamed Mondays 1pm-3pm, recordings available shortly after the lecture
Tutorials: face-to-face Tuesday 1pm - 2pm Barr Smith South 1063 OR online Tuesday 2pm-3pm
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
- Be able to describe the general physical mechanisms underlying the production & perception of speech.
- Be able to classify speech sounds according to vocal tract configuration, laryngeal activity and airflow.
- 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.
- Be able to identify the role of stress, intonation, pitch and duration in the production & perception of speech.
- Perform a phonemic analysis of any given language, drawing on notions of minimal pairs, contrastive vs complementary distribution, conditioning of allophones & free variation.
- Identify the distinctive features of any given set of phonemes.
- Explain the concept of ‘underlying phonological form’, drawing on examples from a variety of languages.
- Formulate phonological and phonetic realisation rules, having regard to rule ordering principles.
- Understand the basic principles of Phonological Typology.
- Undertake comparisons of conventional vs non-linear approaches to phonological representation.
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
Carlos Gussenhoven & Haike Jacobs, Understanding Phonology. Routledge: either 3rd edn 2011, or 4th edn 2017, due out 28.3.17.
The 3rd edition of this text is available on-line at the library.
Recommended Resources
Zsiga, Elizabeth, 2013, The sounds of language: an introduction to phonetics and phonology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Available on-line at BSL: 414 Z92s
Clark, John, Colin Yallop & Janet Fletcher, 2007, An introduction to phonetics and phonology. Malden, MA: Blackwell. BSL: 414 C593i.3
Crowley, Terry, 1992, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics. Auckland: Oxford 最新糖心Vlog Press. BSL: 417.7 C953i
Ladefoged, Peter, & Keith Johnson, 2011, A course in phonetics, 6th edn. BSL: 414 L153c.6 CD-ROM
Miller, Robert, (ed), 2015, Trask's historical linguistics, 3rd edition. London: Routledge. BSL: 417.7 T775ZM
David Odden, 2014, Introducing Phonology, Second Edition. Cambridge 最新糖心Vlog Press.
Odden, David, 2008, Introducing phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge 最新糖心Vlog Press. BSL: 414 O22i
Helen Attar, Research Librarian for Linguistics
There is a good collection of linguistics books and journals in the Barr Smith Library.
The textbooks listed above will be put in the BSL reserve collection.Online Learning
Relevant information, notes and readings for the course may be found on MyUni.
Lectures will be recorded and put on MyUni.
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Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
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
Mechanics and acoustics of speech production -- Handouts; chs 1, 2
Week 2
Phonological typology & phonetic transcription -- chs 3, 6
Week 3
Allophonic variation -- ch 4
Week 4
Underlying representations -- ch 7
Week 5
Feature Theory -- ch 5
Week 6
Rules & derivations -- ch 8
Week 7
Syllables & Prosody -- ch 9, 12
Week 8
Stress -- ch 11
Week 9
Tone -- ch 10
Week 10
Optimality theory -- ch 13
Week 11
Feature geometry -- ch 14
Week 12
Historical phonology -- Crowley, Miller's Trask
Week 13
Revision, take-home exam
Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
1 x 2-hour lecture/workshop per week (x12) 24 hours
1 x 1-hour tutorial per week (x10) 10 hours
4 hours Practicals/Reading per week (x12) 48 hours
4 hours Assignment Preparation per week (x12) 48 hours
2 hours Research per week (X 13) 26 hours
TOTAL 156 hoursLearning Activities Summary
Week 1
Speech production & perception – the body and the brain
The idea of sound systems
Week 2
Making, hearing, transcribing & categorising consonant sounds
Distinguishing consonants
Week 3
Making, hearing, transcribing & categorising vowel sounds
Distinguishing vowels
Week 4
Stress, Tone, Intonation, Duration – what are they & what difference do they make?
Week 5
The idea of the phoneme – minimal pairs, contrastive vs complementary distribution, conditioned variation, phonetic realisation.
Week 6
Phonemes as sets of distinctive features – universal parameters, archiphonemes, underspecification.
Week 7
Underlying Forms & phonological rules.
Week 8
Formulating sets of phonological rules – ordering and elsewhere conditions.
Week 9
Exploring phonological rules cross-linguistically.
Week 10
Phonological Typology – what comes ‘naturally’ (and why) ?
Week 11
Exploring phonological theory - linear & non-linear approaches
Week 12
The limits of abstractness – phonology as a human science vs mind game -
Assessment
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Assessment Summary
Assessment Weighting
Practical no. 1 25%
Practical no. 2 25%
Practical no. 3 25%
Take-home exam 25%
All assessment components must be completed to qualify for a final result.
Practical assignments will be posted during the course of the semesterAssessment Related Requirements
Submission of assignments:
All assignments should be submitted on Turnitin. All assignments are due in by 5.00 pm on the due date.
Do not e-mail assignments
All assignments must be in grammatical English
Always keep a copy of your work, as occasionally students’ work is lost
Extensions (normally up to one week) may be negotiated through the course coordinator, but this must be organised prior to the due date
Claims of extenuating circumstances require a doctor’s certificate, counsellor’s certificate or similar documentation of evidence. Supplementary assignments may be offered under certain circumstances, and on an individual basis
Late assignments without an extension will not be accepted or marked, and a fail result will be recorded. This is because assignments will be discussed in seminars as soon as possible after they are marked, and work may not therefore be submitted after that time
Assignments will be returned in seminars.Assessment Detail
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.Submission
Assignments are to be submitted through MyUni.Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
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