Advanced Phonetics BTMTAN204
Töltéssy Zoltán
Phonetic symbols are encoded in Doulos SIL fonts, the operating system is Windows 7
25th February, 2013
Home assignment to be handed in
Advanced Phonetics for MA students,
Spring 2013
A small vocabulary has to be compiled. Students are expected to collect 25 entries including two or more words displaying a particular phonetic/phonological phenomenon.
Recommended topics:
TOPICS / EXAMPLES[†] / Shift of stress / /ˈfəʊtəgrɑːf/ /ˌfəʊtəˈgræfɪk/
/ Regular sound changes / /ˈpeɪʃənt/ /ˈpeɪʃəns/
(Changes of consonants: spirantisation, palatalisation; changes of vowels: shortening; the allomorphic suffixes <-ed>, <-es>)
/ Irregular sound changes / /fuːd/ /fiːd/
/ Homographs / live¹ verb /lɪv/ ‘be alive’
live² adj /laɪv/ ‘not dead’
/ Homophones / leadverb /liːd/‘take someone somewhere’
liednoun /liːd/‘a musical setting’
/ Homonyms / bank¹ noun /bæŋk/ ‘a business’
bank² verb /bæŋk/ ‘keep money in a bank¹’
bank³ noun /bæŋk/ ‘the side of a river’
The structure of the essay is as follows:
CHAPTER1 / Title page (university, department, subject, title, author’s name and Neptun code, place, date)
2 / Introduction (aim(s), methods, a problem in ELT)
3 / Theoretical points, clarification of notions and technical terms
4 / Compilation (25 entries; identical pronunciation/spelling + senses + (examples))
5 / Use in ELT (jokes, puns, riddles, tongue twisters, exercises)
6 / Summary
7 / Bibliography and webliography
Feel free to invent your own method of presentation and layout of the writing. You are asked to send it by e-mail (my address is on my page). You are asked to add examples you have collected, come across, or used.
The deadline is12thApril, 2013.
Recommendedsources
Hancock 2012 / Hancock, Mark. English pronunciation in use : intermediate : self-study and classroom use. 2nd edition. Cambridge : CambridgeUniversity Press, 1012. 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN 978-0-521-18512-7
Hewings 2010 / Hewings, Martin. English pronunciation in use : advanced : self-study and classroom use. Reprinted. Cambridge : CambridgeUniversity Press, 2010. 192 p. : ill. ; 27 cm+6 CD
ISBN 978-0-521-69376-9
Kovács and Siptár 2006 / Kovács János and Siptár Péter. A—Z : angol kiejtés : tankönyv és gyakorlókönyv. Budapest : Corvina, 2006. xxiii, 422 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 963-13-5557-8
Marks and Donna 2007 / Marks, Jonathan and Donna, Sylvia. English pronunciation in use : elementary : self-study and classroom use.Cambridge : CambridgeUniversity Press, 2007. 166 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN 978-0-521-69373-8
Nádasdy 2006 / Nádasdy, Ádám. Background to English pronunciation : (phonetics, phonology, spelling) : for students of English at Hungarian teacher training institutions. Budapest : Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 2006. 301 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 963-19-5791-8
Nádasdy 2006 / Nádasdy, Ádám. Practice book in English phonetics and phonology. Budapest : Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 2006. 115 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN 963-19-4565-0
Pintér 1987 / Pintér Tamás. English phonetics and phonology = Angol fonetika és fonológia. [Főiskolai jegyzet.]4th ed. Budapest : Tankönyvkiadó, 1987. 152 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
J 11-890
Roach2006 / Roach, Peter [et al.] [eds.]. English pronouncing dictionary. 17th ed. Cambridge : CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006. xxi, 599 p : ill. ; 22.7 cm ISBN 978-0-521-68087-5
Szabados 1987 / Szabados Márta. Angol kiejtésiskola. Budapest : Tankönyvkiadó, 1987. 163 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN 963-17-9669-8
Wells 1990 /
Wells, JohnChristopher. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow : Longman, © 1990. xxviii, 802 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
ISBN 0-582-05383-8
+ There are numerous collections of examples on the net1
[†] Phonetic symbols are encoded in Doulos SIL fonts, the operating system is Windows 7