French Phonetics and Phonology
Code: 106626Credits: 6
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| English and French Studies | OB | 2 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Roser Gauchola Gamarra
- Email :
- roser.gauchola@uab.cat
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
There are not
Objectives
Phonetics and phonology of French language is one of the compulsory topics for Grau d'Estudis franceses, Estudis de francès i català, Estudis de francès i espanyol, Estudis de francès i anglès i Estudis de francès i clàssiques students. One of its main goals is to help students in their acquisition of the phonic component of French language with different techniques of pronunciation correction. Simultaneously, this subject introduces students to phonetic description of oral productions in French as well as to the analysis methodology used in this discipline. At the end of the term, the student must be able to:- To perceive and to produce a) the sentences prosody, b) the phonetic structure or words, c) phonic unities depending of their context, to achieve intelligible and natural pronunciation- To produce and interpret phonological transcriptions of French language;- To classify and to describe from the articulatory perspective of French sounds;- To analyze and to describe from the acoustic perspective of French sounds
Learning outcomes
- Summarising acquired knowledge about the origin and transformations experienced in its several fields of study.
- Distinguish grammatical gender from natural gender.
- Distinguish the distinct levels of linguistic analysis and establish relationships between them.
- Identify the impact of social and economic organisation on linguistic practices in French.
- Produce works in which the fundamental digital and bibliographic tools for the field of study are applied.
- In a responsible and reasoned way, apply the appropriate computer techniques for the consultation and management of specific documentary sources.
- Autonomously search, select and process information both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, specialized magazines) and from across the network.
- Identify the impact of sex/gender inequalities within the field of study.
- Compare the expression of grammatical and natural gender in distinct languages.
- Make oral and written presentations of an academic and/or professional nature on French language, linguistics, culture or literature with a high degree of linguistic accuracy and terminological precision in French.
- Identifying different theoretical options or ways of dealing with the same problem from alternative theoretical frameworks.
- Use the appropriate and specific terminology of the literary studies.
- Analyse the main phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic and pragmatic properties of French in the current language.
- Establish typological generalizations.
- Generate hypotheses and arguments to explain a given linguistic phenomenon.
- Identify the pragmatic factors that condition the use of different linguistic and argumentative structures.
- Identify distinct theoretical options or ways of approaching the same linguistic phenomena from alternative theoretical frameworks.
- Identify and explain the terminology specific to each of the linguistic levels.
- Be familiar with the resources available for the analysis of French.
- Solve complex linguistic analysis at any level and with the appropriate tools.
Contents
This subject is structured in practical activities to improve French pronunciation as well as a theoretical-practical introduction of the basis of phonetic and phonological description of French. Pronunciation- Perception and production of French rhythm, stress and intonation;- Perception and production of vocalic and consonant French phonemes and their allophones Phonetic and phonological description of French language- Introduction to phonetics, phonology and transcription in IPA- Articulatory phonetics: basis and methodology analysis, description and classification or vowels and consonants in French- Acoustic phonetics: basis and methodology analysis, description and classification or vowels and consonants in French- Sounds and prosody perception
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phonetic correction. Theoretical courses with TIC and collective. dicussion. Elaboration and correction of practical exercises | 55 | 2.2 | |
| Exercises | 65 | 2.6 | |
| Elaboration in classroom of collective or reduced groups exercises. Oral practice in reduced groups | 15 | 0.6 |
This subject is theoretical and practical. It will be focused on formative activities and students active participation in order to achieve the competences required. The learning will be directed with these techniques and actions:- Phonetic correction- Oral practice in reduced groups.- Individual exercises of application of the subject contents. Collective discussions.- Courses with TIC and collective discussion- Test on the competences on the contents, the application of the knowledge to phonetic analysis, written tests in French on the topics of the subject Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practical exercises | 30% | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Oral exam | 40% | 5 | 0.2 | 10, 13, 19 |
| Written exams | 30% | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
Assessment will be continous. It will include all the tasks done during the semester (exams, exercises) and an oral exam, which is compulsory and has to be passed in order to pass the subject.
Mid-term exams will be corrected in class and students will be able to ask any doubt about assessment. In the final exam, a date of revision will be fixed.
- If a student has not done any of the mid-term exams, (s)he will not be assessed.
- Remedial exam will only be avalaible to students who, having done the continuous assessment, have failed. But they will have not right to remedial exam if their average is inferior to 3,5 /10 or if they have not done at least 2/3 of the required tasks. Tasks not done will not be remediated (in this case the assessment will be 0/10) or the activities done in course as well as the oral exam, which cannot be reassessed. If the student has not got an average of pass, he will have to do a final exam including all the topics.
Plagiarism: Total or partial plagiarism of any exercise will be automatically failed (0) of the plagiarised exercise. TO PLAGIARISE is copying from non identified sources from a text, even if it is one single phrase, which is appropriated by someone who is not the real author (it includes copying phrases or Internet passages and adding them without modification to the text which is presented as one's own). It is a serious offense.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite (PIUNE students), they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB's virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activitiesand class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
This subject entirely prohibits the use of AI technologies in all of its activities. Any submitted work that contains content generated using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding grade will be awarded a zero, without the possibility of reassessment. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.
Particular cases: Students whose mother tongue is French will have to achieve the same assessment conditions than the rest of students. Students are the exclusive responsible of monitoring formative and assessment activities.
UNIQUE ASSESSMENT:
- a written exam (50 % of the final assessment) on theoretical contents and application in exercises
- an oral exam (50 % of the final assessmen). It must be passed in order to pass the subject.
Bibliography
- General works
Argod-Dutard, Françoise. (1996). Éléments de phonétique appliquée. Paris : Armand Colin / Masson. Carton, F. (1974). Introduction à la phonétique du français. Paris: Bordas.
Crystal, David (1980). A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. London: Deutsch.
Escudier, Pierre et alii (éds.) La parole : des modèles cognitifs aux machines communicantes. Paris : Hermès. Jakobson, R. (1976). Six leçons sur le son et le sens. Paris: Minuit. [première leçon]
Landercy, Albert.; Renard, Raymond (1977). Éléments de phonétique. Bruxelles: CIPA/Didier.
Léon, Pierre (1966). La prononciation du français standard. Aide-mémoire d'orthoépie. Paris: Didier. Léon, P. (1992). Phonétisme et prononciations du français. Paris: Nathan.
Malmberg, Bertil . (1974). Manuel de phonétique générale. Paris: Picard.
Munot, Philippe et Neve, François Xavier (2003). Une introduction à la phonétique. Liège: CEFAL. Quilis,A. (1993). Tratado de fonética y fonología españolas. Madrid: Gredos.
Vaissière, Jacques. 2006. La phonétique. Paris: PUF Que sais-je? Walter, H. 1977. La phonologie du français. Paris: PUF.
Wioland, François 1991. Prononcer les mots du français: des sons et des rythmes. Paris: Hachette.
2. Phonology
Delais-Roussarie, Elisabeth. et Durand, Jacques., éds. (2003). Corpus et variation en phonologie du français : méthodes et analyses. Toulouse : Presse Universitaire du Mirail.
Dell, François (1985, 2e éd.). Les règles et les sons, Introduction à la phonologie générative. Paris : Hermann. Duchet, J.-L. (1998, 5e éd.). La phonologie. Paris : PUF, coll. «Que sais-je?».
Durand, Jacques etal.., éds. (2009). Phonologie, variation et accents du français. Paris, Londres : Hermès Sciences, Lavoisier.
Durand, Jacques. et Lyche, Chantal. (2000). « La phonologie : des phonèmes à la théorie de l'optimalité », in Escudier, P. et alii. (éds.) La parole : des modèles cognitifs aux machines communicantes. Paris : Hermès.
Encrevé, Pierre. (1988). La liaison avec et sans enchaînement. Paris : éd. de Minuit.
Goldsmith, John, éd. (1995). The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Cambridge Mass. : Basil Blackwell. Gussenhoven, C. & Jacobs H. (1998). Understanding Phonology. London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press.
Troubetzkoy, Nikolai. 1949. Principes de phonologie. Paris: Klincksieck.
3. Perception
Nguyen, Noêl. (2005). La perception de la parole, in N. Nguyen, S. Wauquier-Gravelines & J. Durand (éds.), Phonologie et phonétique : Forme et substance (pp. 425-447). Paris : Hermès.
Pisoni, David et Remez, Robert. E.(éds.) (2005). The Handbook of Speech Perception. Oxford : Blackwell.
4. Prosody
Delattre, Pierre 1966. \"Les dix intonations de base du français\", The French Review, 40.
Di Cristo, Aalbert. (2004). La prosodie au carrefour de la phonétique, de la phonologie et de l'articulation formes-fonctions, Travaux Interdisciplinaires du Laboratoire Parole et Langage, vol.23, p. 67-211. Di Cristo, A. (2016). Les musiques du français parlé. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter.
Heinz, Jeffrey et al (éds.). (2016). Dimensions of Phonological Stress. Cambridge University Press.
Lacheret-Dujour, Anne.; Beaugendre, Frédéric. (1999). La prosodie du français. Paris: CNRS Editions.
Morel, Marie Annick; Danon-Boileau, Laurent (1998). Grammaire del'intonation. L'exemple du français. Paris: Ophrys.
Software
Praat: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
Doulos SIL: http://software.sil.org/doulos/
Bibliografia: http://liceu.uab.cat/~joaquim/
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 1 | French | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | French | first semester | morning-mixed |