Il corso intende portare gli studenti a sviluppare e consolidare la propria competenza nell'ambito della fonetica e morfologia della lingua inglese, oltre a fornire alcuni dati basilari concernenti la storia della lingua inglese dalle origini ad oggi.
Prerequisito: B2 completo
1. PHONETICS
- The International Phonetic Alphabet
- speech organs
- vowels and consonants
- voicing
- place of articulation
- manner of articulation
- intonation and prosody
2. MORPHOLOGY
- functional and lexical words
- morphemes
- inflectional morphology
- derivational morphology
- common affixes in English
3. HISTORY OF ENGLISH
- Mediterraneans, Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans
- Old English, Middle English, Modern English
- Main varieties of Present-day English
RIFERIMENTI BIBLIOGRAFICI:
Cruttenden, Alan (2014) "Gimson's Pronunciation of English". London: Routledge.
Facchinetti, Roberta (2016) "English Phonetics and Morphology. A Reader for First Year University Students" (3rd ed.), Verona: Quiedit.
Kuiper, Koenraad and W. Scott Allan (2010) "An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound and Sentence" (3rd ed.), Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan.
Plag, Ingo (2003) "Word-Formation in English". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
| Autore | Titolo | Casa editrice | Anno | ISBN | Note |
| Kuiper, Koenraad and W. Scott Allan | An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound and Sentence (Edizione 4) | Palgrave Macmillan | 2016 | 978-0-230-20801-8 | |
| Facchinetti, Roberta | English Phonetics and Morphology. A Reader for First Year University Students (Edizione 3) | QuiEdit | 2016 | 9788864642314 | |
| Cruttenden, Alan | Gimson's Pronunciation of English (Edizione 8) | Routledge | 2014 | 978-0-4441-8309-2 | |
| Plag, Ingo | Word-Formation in English (Edizione 1) | Cambridge University Press | 2003 | 978-0-521-52563-3 |
ESAME SCRITTO comprendente 30 items che coprono aspetti fonetici, morfologici e cenni di Storia della lingua inglese; di seguito si riportano i principali argomenti trattati nell'esame:
- phonetic transcription / English spelling of a set of words/phrases;
- articulatory description (voicing, place of articulation, manner of articulation) of a set of phonetic symbols;
- assimilation, t-voicing, dark l, clipped syllables;
- stressed/unstressed syllables, content words, nucleus;
- British English vs American English spelling and pronunciation;
- inflectional morphology;
- derivational morphology;
- prefixes and suffixes;
- Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans and their languages;
- Old English, Middle English, Modern English: basic aspects;
- Standardization of English and Present-day English.
