PhoneticSci

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 Online-test: Principles of Phonetics and Phonology (PPP) --> download [Uploaded 20 April 2020, 06:24 GMT+0530]

 Due Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 09:00 am IST GMT+0530

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 Online-test: Introduction to Language Sciences (ILS) --> download [Uploaded 26 April 2020, 23:00 GMT+0530]

 Due Monday, 27 April 2020, 5:00 pm IST GMT+0530 

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Week 1: 29 Mar-4 Apr 2020
Phonological systems-I .. Video link here. [Uploaded 27 March 2020, 1618 GMT+0530]
Phonological systems-II .. Video link here. [Uploaded 27 March 2020, 1826 GMT+0530]
Brief outlines of SPE Model-I .. Video link here. [Uploaded 28 March 2020, 1901 GMT+0530]
Brief outlines of SPE Model-II .. Video link here. [Uploaded 28 March 2020, 1903 GMT+0530]
Brief outlines of SPE Model-III .. Video link here. [Uploaded 28 March 2020, 1905 GMT+0530]
Jakobson-Halle classification -> PDF1 -> PDF2 [Updated 5 April 2020, 2105 GMT+0530]
Jakobson & Halle (1956): For details, read pp.7-11, 20-36 of PDF [Updated 16 April 2020, 1411 GMT+0530]

IPA Phonetic Transcription.. Listen to the sounds..
Click for the interactive IPA Chart--> here [Updated 6 April 2020, 0921 GMT+0530]
IPA Chart is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License. Copyright © 2015 International Phonetic Association.

Assignments for Week 1
Assignment 1: Click to Download --> PDF. [Originally Due 5 April 2020, 12:00 midnight. Due to the technical difficulties encountered by students to access the Google Drive, the deadline has been extended till Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 12:00 midnight. This assignment is now closed for submission.]

Week 2: 5-11 Apr 2020
Syllable Structure: Browman & Goldstein, 1994 PDF Notes on Basic structure of syllables PDF [Updated 6 April 2020 11:05, GMT+0530]
Hierarchical structure of language-I .. Video link here. [Uploaded 10 April 2020, 1653 GMT+0530]
Hierarchical structure of language-II .. Video link here. [Uploaded 10 April 2020, 1755 GMT+0530]
Hierarchical structure of language-III .. Video link here. [Uploaded 10 April 2020, 1845 GMT+0530]

Week 3: 12-18 Apr 2020
More videos coming soon..
Word Stress .. watch a video and do the fun exercise --> here
Word stress rules: Go through the preliminaries of the topic --> here [Updated 14 Apr 2020 14:15, GMT+0530] before listening to my video lecture.
You can view my video lecture on basics of syllable structure here. [Updated 28 Apr 2020 15:15, GMT+0530]
Syllable structure Contd.: DF determinants of syllable structure. Listen to the Podcast here: MP3 format or the OGG format. [Updated 14 Apr 2020 16:47, GMT+0530]

Week 4: 19-25 Apr 2020
Weak Forms; Intonation -> Read pdf here
Grammatical elements: the term `grammar’ PDF1 PDF2
Basic units of Grammar: sentence; word; morpheme -> PDF Listen to the Podcast here: MP3 and OGG formats. [Updated 26 Apr 2020 08:30, GMT+0530]

Week 5: 26 Apr - 2 May 2020
Word classes and Grammatical categories.. Listen to the Podcast here in MP3 and OGG formats. [Uploaded 29 Apr 2020 10:35, GMT+0530]
What is `grammar'? .. Listen to the Podcast here in MP3 and OGG formats. [Uploaded 30 Apr 2020 10:13, GMT+0530]
Immediate constituents and Immediate Constituent Analysis
Morphological analysis: structures and categories .. Reading: Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams, Chapter 2: Morphology: The Words of Language
Syntactic relations: sentence patterns .. Reading: Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams, Chapter 3: Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language

Week 6: 3-9 May 2020
Current linguistic theory: Theory formation
Alternative perspectives: computational linguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology and neurosciences
Linguistics and language teaching
Linguistics and literature
Ferdinand de Saussure and Course in General Linguistics
Basics of Minimalist Theory
Metrical phonology and Autosegmental phonology
Morphophonemics

And some more!
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