Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Linguistics
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CNy5aE.1
- Title
- English Acoustic Phonetics - Foundations and Perspectives: Where are Syllables?
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The concept of the syllable is taken for granted by many phonologists. There is evidence, however, that both phonological description and theory can easily do without this concept. In this course we will first cover some of the literature on what phonology thinks the syllable is, then we will go on to other considerations which cast doubt on the usefulness of this concept. The course's website is http://seas.elte.hu/w/!syllables.
- Course content
- The concept of the syllable is taken for granted by many phonologists. There is evidence, however, that both phonological description and theory can easily do without this concept. In this course we will first cover some of the literature on what phonology thinks the syllable is, then we will go on to other considerations which cast doubt on the usefulness of this concept. The course's website is http://seas.elte.hu/w/!syllables.
- Assessment method
- The concept of the syllable is taken for granted by many phonologists. There is evidence, however, that both phonological description and theory can easily do without this concept. In this course we will first cover some of the literature on what phonology thinks the syllable is, then we will go on to other considerations which cast doubt on the usefulness of this concept. The course's website is http://seas.elte.hu/w/!syllables.
- Bibliography
- Youssef Aoun. 1979. Is the syllable or the supersyllable a constituent? MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 1:140–148. George N. Clements. 1990. The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification. In John Kingston and Mary E. Beckman (eds.), Papers in laboratory phonology I: Between the grammar and the physics of speech, Cambridge: CUP. 283–333. John Harris. 1994. English sound structure. Oxford: Blackwell, chapter 2. Daniel Kahn. 1976. Syllable-based generalizations in English phonology. PhD diss, MIT (Garland, 1980). Elisabeth O. Selkirk. 1984. On the major class features and syllable theory. In Mark Aronoff and Richard T. Oehrle (eds.), Language and sound structure, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. 107–136. Péter Szigetvári. 2019. Where are syllables? Radical: A Journal of Phonology 1: 92–125. Draga Zec. 1995. Sonority constraints on syllable structure. Phonology 12:85–129. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675700002396