German Linguistics I

Code:

LA016

Acronym:

LINGA1

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Germanic Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Applied Languages

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LA	10	LA - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
LLC	5	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
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Teaching language

Alemão

Objectives

- Discuss the relationship between phonetics and phonology;- - Identify the acoustic propertsensitivity necessary to recognize the phonemes of German, but also that improve your pronunciation. Placing the accent on the word and sentence as well as intonation and placement of pauses in reading longer sentences and other complex aspects are covered in class, both from the theoretical point of view, and practical. The knowledge of the properties of the different phonemes of German and prosodic features of German phrases is not only important for decoding phrases in German, but also represents an indispensable instrument for teaching languages.

Will be explored as the German sentence structures based on DVG (Dependenz-Verb-Grammatik). It is intended that students will be able to identify actants and bystanders phrases, and leaving the building plans frásica, construct grammatically correct sentences, fully respecting the valencias verbs.
ies characterizing consonants, vowels and suprasegmentals; - identify place of articulation; - identify manner of articulation; - distinguish sounds represented by IPA symbols; - distinguish German and Portuguese phonological systems; - use transcription code of connected speech in German.

Learning outcomes and competences

- Acquisition of a greater sensitivity to the perception of the phonemes of the German language;

- Acquisition of the ability to pronounce the phonemes of the German language.

- Ability to read a text highlighting syntactic features of sentences, ie, making the breaks at the right times;

- Ability to identify actants and circunstants  of German senteces;

- Ability to construct grammatically correct sentences, respecting the valence of German verbs.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Articulatory Phonetics

1.1 Main tasks

1.2 Speech sound production

2 Descriptive phonetics

2.1 Consonants

2.2 Vowels

2.3 The International Phonetic Alphabet – IPA

3. Phonology

3.1 Structuralism

3.1.1 Phonemes and  Allophons 

3.1.2 German Phonemes

3.1.2.1 Konsonants

3.1.2.2 Vocals

3.2. The German and Portuguese phoneme inventories in contrast

3.3 Transcription

4. Prosody

4.1. Intonation of different sentence types

4.2 Stress and Accent

4.3 Rhythm

4.4 Reading pauses

5. Dependenz-Verb-Grammatik

5.1 Valence, Actants, circunstants

5.2 Classes of actants

5.3 Plan for sentence construction

5.4 Exercices for Sentence analysis

Bibliographic References: to be given by the teacher

 

5.3 Ergänzugns

Mandatory literature

Helga Dieling / Ursula Hirschfeld; Phonetik lehren und lernen, Langenscheidt, 2000. ISBN: 3-468-49653

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretica- - practial seminars

exercises for audtion and oral production

analysis of written texts in order to practice sentence structures

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Phonetics
Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Phonology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Teste	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Positive classification in all evaluation components

Calculation formula of final grade

written tests = 80 %

written works and exercices in class = 20 %

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

according to the norms of the FLUP

Classification improvement

positive note in all the accessment components