Sounds Society Blockseminar Jane Stuart Smith

We all know that fine-grained aspects of speech production convey a good deal of information about a speaker – how old they are, if they are male or female, which region they might come from, what kind of background or ethnicity they might have, even what kind of emotional state they are in. But describing and accounting for this kind of variation requires specific skills and theoretical approaches. This course aims to enable you to appreciate key theories underlying social and regional accents, and to enable you to develop some core phonetic skills for analysing speech, using auditory and some basic acoustic analysis. The course will consist of core lecturing, hands-on training and analysis sessions, with opportunities for discussion and feedback; you will also carry out a small-scale group project, which you will present on the final day of the course. The dialect for the course will be Scottish English, and the materials for the course will be drawn from the newly collected Sounds of the City corpus of Glaswegian vernacular (http://soundsofthecity.arts.gla.ac.uk/),with some additional materials for the ethnic Glasgow Asian (‘Glaswasian’) accent. N.B.: Please note that you need to bring a a laptop or comparable net-enabled device with headphones to work with in class. Deutsche und Englische Linguistik, Master of Arts LingA2, FAL4 Dozentin: Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow Registration – StudIP 01.09.2016-30.09.2016 / Size restriction – 25 / Further Information – ulrike.altendorf@engsem.~ Um an diesem Kurs teilnehmen zu können, müssen Sie eventuell am Freitag, dem 02.12.16, und am Montag, dem 05.12.16, von Ihnen belegten anderen Lehrveranstaltungen einmalig fernbleiben. Sollte die Lehrenden dieser Veranstaltung eine Bescheinigung wünschen, wenden Sie sich bitte an mich, sobald Sie ein regulärer Seminarteilnehmer sind. Universität Hannover WiSe 2016/17 Englisch, Ergänzungsstudiengang 3. Fach LA Gym. Prof. Dr. phil. Altendorf Ulrike phil