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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
English Phonetics and Phonology II - AFO510008
Title: English Phonetics and Phonology II
Guaranteed by: Institute of Phonetics (21-FU)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AAA130022
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Radek Skarnitzl, Ph.D.
Mgr. Pavel Šturm, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The course follows on the Phonetics and Phonology of English I course. It introduces the sound system of contemporary Standard British English at the suprasegmental level. It focuses on linking between words, lexical stress, and especially on the prosodic properties of English at the level of the prosodic phrase, i.e. intonation and rhythm, based on the latest knowledge of spoken English, including a focus on the specific elements of reduction and linking in connected English speech. Seminars continue to build skills related to the analysis of British English pronunciation and students’ own pronunciation, with an emphasis on effective phrasal prosody. Seminar work focuses on listening analysis of students’ own pronunciation.

Course webpage:
http://fonetika.ff.cuni.cz/studium/stranky-kurzu/english-phonetics-phonology/
Last update: Skarnitzl Radek, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.12.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Credit requirements: min. 70% attendance, active participation in the seminars and in short tasks in MS Teams, submission of seminar work (transcription and listening analysis), participation in a perception test.

Exam requirements: two transcription tests, oral presentantion of one topic, correct pronunciation at the segmental and prosodic level (in spontaneous speech).

All credit requirements must be fulfilled by the end of the academic year in which the student was enrolled into the course.

Last update: Skarnitzl Radek, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.12.2025)
Literature -

Essential literature:

Carley, P., Mees, I. M., & Collins, B. (2025). Practical English phonetics and phonology: A resource book for students (5th Edition). Routledge.

Volín, J. (2002). IPA-based transcription for Czech students of English. Karolinum.

Wells, J. C. (2008). Longman pronunciation dictionary. Longman.

Supplementary literature:

Skarnitzl, R., Šturm, P. a Volín, J. (2016). Zvuková báze řečové komunikace: Fonetický a fonologický popis češtiny. Karolinum.

Wells, J. C. (2006). English intonation: An introduction. Cambridge University Press.

Last update: Skarnitzl Radek, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.12.2025)
Syllabus -

Main topics:

  • Linking and connected speech
  • Prosodic phrase and the intonational inventory of English
  • Functions of prosody
  • Vocalic reductions and weak forms of grammatical words
  • Lexical stress in simple words and in derivatives and compounds
  • Rhythmical structure of utterances and eurhythmy

Pronunciation and descriptive skills are checked throughout the course.

Last update: Skarnitzl Radek, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.12.2025)
 
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