LOT Winter School 2010 course description

Course title

Phonetics and Phonology of Intonation

 

 

Teacher

Carlos Gussenhoven
 

E-mail:    c.gussenhoven@let.ru.nl

Postal Address:  Letteren TW, Radboud Universiteit, Postbus 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen

Homepage: http://www.ru.nl/gep/

Course Level:

Intermediate
 

Knowledge of phonology & phonetics is presupposed
 

Course Description

We'll discuss the intonational structure of a number of languages from a typological perspective, dealing with concepts like word melody, pitch accent, boundary tone. We'll distinguish intonational structure from paralinguistics by giving a brief account of paralinguistic meaning. We'll do chapters from my The Phonology of Tone and Intonation (2004, corrected reprint 2009, Cambridge University Press), below given as PTI, and select some varieties of English as well as one or two other languages for detailed phonological analysis.

Day-to-day Program

Monday: Introduction. (1) The phonetics of fundamental frequency; (2) The Autosegmental-Metrical model: Outline. PTI chapter 1. Handout. PTI chapter 7.

 

Tuesday: Language structure I: Word melodies, pitch accents and boundary tones, illustrated on the basis of Nigerian English, Singaporean English, Cantonese English and British English. Handouts and PTI chapter 15.

 

Wednesday: British English. Illustrations of contours. Briefly: reasons for accenting and deaccenting. The relation between stress and accent. Phrase accent.

 

Thursday: Paralinguistics as a near-universal set of form-meaning relations and their explanation. PTI ch 5.

 

Friday: Language structure II: One of several options: Complex intonation and tone systems in Limburgish or Tone crowding in Japanese or  other.

 

Reading list

 

 

 

Further readings: