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. PHONETICS
- The International Phonetic Alphabet
- speech organs
- vowels and consonants
- voicing
- place of articulation
- manner of articulation
- nucleus placement
- intonation and prosody
2. MORPHOLOGY
- function and lexical words
- morphemes
- inflectional morphology
- derivational morphology
- conversion
- common affixes in English
- compounds, blends and acronyms
3. Origins and development of the English language: THE BASICS
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | 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 | |
| Cruttenden, Alan | Gimson's Pronunciation of English (Edizione 8) | Routledge | 2014 | 978-0-4441-8309-2 | |
| Facchinetti Roberta | Introduction to English Phonetics and Morphology (Edizione 1) | QuiEdit | 2020 | 9788864645506 |
WRITTEN EXAM: 30 items on English phonetics and morphology, along with the basics of origins and development 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;
- compounds, blends and acronyms;
- origins and development of English: the basics.
FOR NON-ATTENDERS: Students who cannot attend the lessons are required to study the reference books quoted online.
