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SPANISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY |
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HORAS |
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PREREQUISITES AND
LANGUAGE LEVEL |
Advanced
level. Prior to enrolling in courses at
this language level, students must have
completed or tested out of a minimum of
four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level
Spanish at their home university in the
U.S. |
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OVERVIEW |
Provide
the student with theoretic tools that facilitate
the comprehension of sounds that prove the
most difficult for acquisition. This class
will work to bring the student closer to
understanding Costa Rican oral expression
through listening practices.
At the end of the course the students will
be able to handle assignments such as:
• Explain the theoretic principals
that differentiate phonetics and
phonology.
• Distinguish articulation of vowels
and consonants of Spanish.
• Describe and characterize
• Recognize within Costa Rican oral
expression, distinguishable accents. |
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CONTENTS
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I.
Definitions
a. Phonetics
b. Phonology
c. Phoneme
II. Consonants
III. Distribution of phoneme
IV. Accents and intonation
V. The syllable:
comparison between certain sounds in English
and Spanish. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
• Gleason,
H.A. Introducción de la lingüistica
descriptiva. Gredos Madrid, 1975.
• Harris, S.W. Fonología generativa
del español. Planeta Barcelona, 1975.
• Schane, Sanford. Introducción
a la fonologia generativa. Labor Barcelona,
1979
Vogel, Irene. Fonología prosódica:
pruebas para la teoría lingüistica
desde el campo de la adquisición de
lenguas extranjeras, 1991.
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