This class aims at developing and consolidating students’ competence in the phonological and morphological aspects of contemporary English, also paying attention to their evolution over time.
Students should also acquire a linguistic competence in English at a B2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Pre-requisite: B2 level
1. KEY ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND OF ITS CURRENT VARIETIES
2. PHONETICS
- The International Phonetic Alphabet
- speech organs
- vowels and consonants
- voicing
- place of articulation
- manner of articulation
- intonation and prosody
3. MORPHOLOGY
- functional and lexical words
- morphemes
- inflectional morphology
- derivational morphology
- common affixes in English
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| 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 |
WRITTEN EXAM: 30 items on phonetics, morphology and on the basics of the history of English.
Here follow the most important topics covered by the exam:
- phonetic transcription of a set of words/phrases;
- articulatory description (voicing, place of articulation, manner of articulation) of phonetic symbols;
- assimilation, t-voicing, dark l, clipped syllables, silent letters;
- stressed/unstressed syllables, content words, nucleus placement;
- British English vs American English spelling and pronunciation;
- inflectional morphology;
- derivational morphology;
- prefixes and suffixes.
- key aspects of the history of English.
FOR NON-ATTENDERS: Students who cannot attend the lessons are required to study the reference books quoted online.
