ECTS | Credits

6 ECTS

Ciclo de Estudos | Degree 

1.o Ciclo | Undergraduate

Semestre | Semester

2.o Semestre | Spring Semester

Docente(s) | Faculty 

Jakob Maché

Língua de ensino | Language of instruction 

Inglês | English

Programa (na língua de ensino) | Course description (in the language of instruction)

This course is dedicated to the much understudied and less understood phenomenon of prosody and intonation. Most second language learners are far from acquiring the intonation of the target language. This is also due to the fact that teaching material and language courses have not integrated the foundations of intonation yet.

However, intonation is the most important means to structure spoken language, which helps the native speaker listener to segment and "digest" the information expressed by the speaker.


 This course will address the following aspects of prosody and intonation in German:

  1. introduction into prosody

  2.  the syllable in German

  3.  the metrical foot in German (Booij 1985, Wiese

    1996)

  4. phonological words in German (Booij 1985, Wiese

    1996, Hall 1999, Raffelsiefen 2000, Marina Nespor

    e Vogel 2007)

  5. intonation phrases

  6. stress timed and syllable timed languages (Auer

    e Uhmann 1988, Maria Nespor, Shukla e Mehler

    2011)

  7. German ToBI: Pitch Accents and Boundary Tones

    (Grice, Baumann e Benzmüller 2005, Peters 2018)

  8. the semantic interpretation of intonation (cf. J. Pierrehumbert e Hirschberg 1990, Truckenbrodt

    2012, Steedman 2014)

  9. variation of prosody and intonation in German va-

    rieties (Gibbon 1998, Gussenhoven e Peters 2004,

    Peters 2006)

  10. intonation in second language acquisition (Braun,

    Galts e Kabak 2014)


Avaliação (na língua de ensino) | Grading and Assessment (in the language of instruction)

  1. Participation (Homework, smaller tasks, discussion) 25 %
  2. One test: 35 %
  3. Oral presentation: 15%
  4. Written paper: 25 %

Bibliografia (selection) | Bibliography (selection)

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  • Booij, Geert E. (1985). “Coordination Reduction in Complex Words: A case for prosodic phonology”. Em: Advances in Nonlinear Phonology. Ed. por Harry van der Hulst e Norval Smith. Dordrecht: Foris, pp. 143–160.
  • Braun, Bettina, Tobias Galts e Barış Kabak (jun. de 2014). “Lexical encoding of L2 tones: The role of L1 stress, pitch accent and intonation”. Em: Second Language Research 30.3, pp. 323–350. doi: 10.1177/0267658313510926. url: https://doi.org/10.1177% 2F0267658313510926.

  • Eisenberg, Peter (2013). Grundriß der deutschen Grammatik: Das Wort. 4a ed. Vol. 1. GB 1602 E36?? Stuttgart: Metzler.

  • Gibbon, Dafydd (1998). “Intonation in German”. Em: Intonation Systems. A survey of 20 languages. Ed. por Daniel Hirst e Albert Di Cristo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 78–95.
  • Goodhue, Daniel e Michael Wagner (2018). “Intonation, ‘yes’ and ‘no’”. Em: 3.1, pp. 1–45. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.210.
  • Grice, Martine, Stefan Baumann e Ralf Benzmüller (2005). “German Intonation in Autosegmental- Metrical Phonology”. Em: Prosodic Typology: the Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Ed. por Sun-Ah Jun. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 55–83.
  • Gussenhoven, Carlos e Haike Jacobs (2015). Understanding Phonology. 4a ed. London: Routledge.
  • Gussenhoven, Carlos e Jörg Peters (ago. de 2004). “A tonal analysis of Cologne Schärfung”. Em: Phonology 21.2, pp. 251–285. doi: 10.1017/s0952675704000211. url: https: //doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0952675704000211.
  • Hall, Tracy Alan (1999). “The phological word: A review”. Em: Studies on the phonological word. Ed. por Tracy Alan Hall e Ursula Kleinhenz. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 1–22.
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  • Ladd, Robert D. (1978). “Stylized intonation”. Em: Language 54.3, pp. 517–540. doi: http://www.jstor.org/stable/412785.

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  • Nespor, Marina e Irene Vogel (2007). Prosodic Phonology. Vol. 28. Studies in generative grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

  • Peters, Jörg (2006). Intonation deutscher Regionalsprachen. Berlin: De Gruyter.

  • — (2018). “Phonological and semantic aspects of German intonation”. Em: Linguistik online 88.1/18, pp. 85–107. doi: 10.13092/lo.88.4191.

  • Pierrehumbert, Janet e Julia Hirschberg (1990). “The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse”. Em: Intentions in Communications. Ed. por P. R. Cohen,

    J. Morgan e M. E. Pollack. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 271–311.

  • Pierrehumbert, Janet B. (1990). The phonology and phonetics of English intonation. Indiana

    University Linguistics Club.

  • Raffelsiefen, Renate (2000). “Evidence for word-internal phonological words in German”. Em:

    Deutsche Grammatik in Theorie und Praxis. Ed. por Rolf Thieroff. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 43–66. 

  • Steedman, Mark (2014). “The surface-compositional semantics of English intonation”. Em: Language 90.1, pp. 2–57. doi: 10.1353/lan.2014.0010.

  • Truckenbrodt, Hubert (2012). “Semantics of intonation”. Em: Semantics. An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Vol. 3. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 2039– 2969.

  • Wiese, Richard (1996). The phonology of German. Phonology of the World’s languages. Oxford University Press.

  • — (2010). Phonetik und Phonologie. Paderborn: UTB