FPF:UCJASSA1 Suprasegment in English - Course Information

UCJASSA1 Suprasegment in English

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Pavel Kolář, CSc.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• English in combination with another discipline (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
• English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)

Course objectives

The lectures will familiarize the students with the various approcahes to mapping and describing English suprasegment. The seminars will focus on practical examples of systematic usage of suprasegmental phenomena in language as well as on practicing them.

Syllabus

• Syllabus of the lectures:
  1. Stress in general
  2. Stress in English and Czech
  3. Stress and rhythm
  4. Single words
  5. Retraction of stress
  6. Compounds and Concatenatives
  7. Presonal names and place names
  8. Recurring words
  9. Tonic unit
  10. Accentual and attitudinal functions of intonation
  11. Grammar function of intonation
  12. Discourse function of intonation
  Syllabus of the seminars:
  1. Stress patterns
  2. Stress and rhythm
  3. Secondary stress and rhythm
  4. Weak forms and rhythm
  5. Falling intonation
  6. Intonation of questions
  7. Rising intonation
  8. Fall-rise type
  9. Intonation of question-tags
  10. Other patterns
  11. Long words and concatenatives
  12. Retraction

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Written test

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