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Høst 2018
HIF-3022 Phonology I - 10 stp
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Type of course
Course contents
Application deadline
Applicants from Nordic countries: 1 June for the autumn semester and 1 December for the spring semester.
Exchange students and Fulbright students: 1 October for the spring semester and 15 April for the autumn semester.
Admission requirements
Admission requirements: Bachelor's Degree (180 ECTS), or equivalent qualification, in a language or linguistics, or a degree combining linguistics and literature, with a minimum of 80 ECTS of concentrated work in linguistics and/or language. Minimum average grade (in the Norwegian grading system) is C for applicants who hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent issued in Europe, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand and B for others.
Application code 9317 (Nordic applicants).
Objective of the course
The students have the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge
The student has:
- The students should be able to show thorough knowledge of how the phonology subcomponent of a grammar interacts with other modules and how a phonological system is acquired in first language learning.
Skills
The student is able to / can:
- develop skills in analysing unfamiliar language data and in presenting their findings orally and in writing.
Language of instruction
Teaching methods
Lectures, exercises, seminars, project work.
Quality assurance: All courses undergo a halfway evaluation once in a 2-year period at the master`s level.
Assessment
The following coursework requirements must be completed and approved in order to take the final exam:
Coursework requirements: 6 hand-in exercises.
The exam will consist of:
Assessment method: A term paper of 7000 words, in Wiseflow. Performance in the course will be assessed on an A-F grades scale. Grades are A-E for passed and F for failed.
A re-sit examination is offered in the event of an F grade. The deadline to register for a re-sit examination is January 15th for the autumn semester and August 15th for the spring semester. For the re-sit exam the student may submit a revised version of his/her term paper.
Recommended reading/syllabus
Textbooks:
Zsiga, Elizabeth C. 2013. The Sounds of Language. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell. Ch¿s 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16
Kager, René. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press. Oxford: Blackwell. Ch¿s 3, 4
Selected chapters from the following volumes:
Aronoff, Mark, and Janie Rees-Miller (eds.). 2001. The Handbook of Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
De Lacy, Paul (ed.) 2007. The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Goldsmith, John 1995. The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Goldsmith, John, Jason Riggle & Alan C. L. Yu 2011. The Handbook of Phonological Theory. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hannahs, S.J. & Anna R. K. Bosch (eds.) 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory. Routledge.
McCarthy, John J. (ed.) 2004. Optimality Theory. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
McCarthy, John J. 2008. Doing Optimality Theory. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Oostendorp, Marc van, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume & Keren Rice (eds.) 2011. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Blackwell.