COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 6089 PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR KAMIL IŞERI

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

This course aims at providing students with the foundations and basic notions of phonetics and phonology, with the knowledge about how speech sounds are produced and categorised, in which phonetic and phonological processes do the sounds appear and what kinds of variations these processes cause, and which rule patterns underlie these variations.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   define the basic concepts of phonetics and phonology
2   distinguish the phonetic symbols for speech sounds
3   categorise the speech sounds
4   explain how the speech sounds are produced
5   how sounds are related to each other and which processes have effect on these sounds
6   analyse various samples from the sound systems of different languages

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, presenting the syllabus
2 History of Phonetic Alphabet and International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols in IPA
3 Lab application: Praat software, the acoustic features of consonants
4 Segmental phonemes
5 Suprasegmental phonemes
6 Stress Stress patterns for nouns Stress patterns for verbs
7 Intonation Intonation Sentence Intonation Intonation Patterns Focus Intonation
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Syllable Syllable Structure Onset Nucleus Coda Rhyme Syllable Patterns Consonant Clusters
10 Introduction to Praat
11 Acoustics of Vowels (laboratory assessment )
12 Acoustics of Consonants (laboratory assessment )
13 Phonological Processes
14 Morphophonological Processes

Recomended or Required Reading

Ladefoged, Peter. (2010). A Course in Phonetics. 6th ed. Thomson.
Demircan, Ömer. (1996) Türkçenin Sesdizimi. Istanbul: Der Yayınları.
Ergenç, Iclal. (2002) Konuşma Dili ve Türkçenin Söyleyiş Sözlüğü. Istanbul:
Multilingual
Özsoy, Sumru. (2004) Türkçenin Yapısı I: Sesbilim. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Yayınları
Gussenhoven, Carlos, and Haike Jacobs. (1998). Understanding Phonology. Hodder Arnold.
Hayes, Bruce. (2008). Introductory Phonology. Blackwell.
Ladefoged, Peter, and Ian Maddieson. (1996). Sounds of the World's Languages.
Blackwell.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation
Tutoring via examples and discussion
Question and Answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-2 will be evaluated by the questions in the midterm and final exams.
LO 3-5 will be evaluated by porjects.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

80% class attendance is obligatory.
Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Yard. Doç. Dr. Özgün KOŞANER
Edebiyat Fakültesi C Blok C-157
Tel: 0232 30 186 29

Office Hours

Monday 09:00-12:00
Tuesday 09:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 8 3 24
Labratory 6 3 18
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Lab Preparation 6 8 48
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 203

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.154
LO.254
LO.354
LO.454
LO.554
LO.654

CONTACT INFORMATION
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