The Sound Structure of Modern English - Einzelansicht

The seminar will take place in a synchronic online format in the form of zoom meetings on Fridays, 8:15-9:45 am.

In this course we will focus on a variety of phonological phenomena in Modern English. Based on some general principles and concepts of phonetics and phonology we will discuss particular specific phenomena of the sound system and the pronunciation of Modern English, such as the length of vowels, rhoticity, word stress, assimilation, flapping, glottalization, etc. In our discussions we will also include a contrastive view on German and English as well as aspects of regional and social variation. The precise topics will be fixed and distributed in the first session. At the end of the semester students shall have acquired an understanding of the most important proprties of Modern English sound structure and shall be able to construe a hypothetical linguistic project of their own in the field of Modern English Phonology.