Admission requirements
We strongly recommend that you have passed Linguistics 1 prior to enrolling in this course.
For this course transitional provisions apply. If you are a student who started the BA programme in 2021-2022 or earlier and have to retake this course, please check the 'More info'-tab or contact your study advisor.
Description
Linguistics 2A continues where Linguistics 1A left off. Our main focus in this course will be on variation in the pronunciation of English speech sounds. Sounds may vary depending on their position in the syllable. Sounds may also vary when the words in which they occur are part of connected speech. And finally, sounds may vary depending on the regional accent of the speaker, and on such factors as the speaker’s age, gender and social class. All these types of variation are covered in the course.
Course objectives
In this course, students:
learn about English sounds and syllables;
learn about different types of variation in the pronunciation of sounds;
deepen their understanding of the phonetics of consonants and vowels;
learn to do phonemic and phonetic transcriptions.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Lecture (1 hour per week)
Seminar (2 hours per week)
Assessment method
Assessment
- Final (written) exam
Attendance is compulsory. Missing more than two tutorials means that students may be excluded from the tutorials. Unauthorized absence also applies to being unprepared, not participating and/or not bringing the relevant course materials to class.
Weighing
The final exam makes up 100% of the final course mark.
Resit
To pass the course, a minimum of a 5.5 is required for the final exam. If the mark for the final exam is below 5.5, the exam will have to be retaken during the resit period.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Knight, Rachael-Anne. 2012. Phonetics: a coursebook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A course programme will be made available through Brightspace before the start of the course.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about MyStudyMap is available on the website
Please note: it's not possible to enroll in MyStudyMap yourself for the tutorial group of this course. If you are a higher year student and need to be enrolled in a tutorial group, please contact the education coordinator.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Arsenaal
Remarks
None