Course syllabus

SEMESTER 1, 2018
LINGUIST 705 - Field Methods: Phonetics and Phonology

• Course Coordinator 

Wayne Lawrence - wp.lawrence@auckland.ac.nz

• Teacher

Wayne Lawrence - wp.lawrence@auckland.ac.nz

• Tutor

• Course delivery format

Mondays 2pm - 3pm with the Course Coordinator, and Fridays 2:30pm - 4:30pm with the Language Consultant.  (Please note that SSO does not allow timetabling from the half-hour, so the SSO times for Fridays differ.  The actual time will be 2:30 - 4:30.)  Additional time slots will be scheduled with the Language Consultant toward the end of the semester for students to gather additional data for their final assignment.

The classroom is planned to be the Linguistics Lab (206-302). 

Summary of Course Description              

Students analyse the structure of an unfamiliar language, focusing on phonetics and morpho-phonology of words.  (Units of more than one word will be dealt with in the second semester course LINGUIST 706). The language studied in LINGUIST 705 and 706 is expected to be the same this year, i.e. an Inuktitut dialect of the Eskimo-Aleut language family.

Course outcomes

A student who successfully completes this course will have the opportunity to:

• acquire knowledge of field techniques for investigating an unfamiliar language
• learn how to document the phonetics and morpho-phonology of a language
• acquire skills in linguistic argumentation by analysing the phonological structures of a language

Weekly Topics

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Workload:

The University of Auckland's expectation on 15-point courses, is that students spend 10 hours per week on the course. Students manage their academic workload and other commitments accordingly. Students attend two hours of lectures each week and participate in a one-hour tutorial from week 2 of semester. This leaves seven hours per week outside the classroom to prepare for tutorials, assignments and the exam.

Deadlines and submission of coursework:

Deadlines for coursework are non-negotiable. In extreme circumstances, such as illness, you may seek an extension but you will be required to provide a doctor's certificate before the assignment is due. All late assignments without a pre-approved extension will be penalised one mark per day late.