PL2CPH-Clinical Phonetics & Phonology

Module Provider: Clinical Language Sciences
Number of credits: 10 [5ECTS credits]
Level: I (Intermediate)
Terms in which taught: Autumn and Spring
Module Convenor: Dr V Stojanovik
Pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Module version for: 2008/9

Email: V.Stojanovik@reading.ac.uk

Aims:
The aims of this module are: to familiarise the students with the issues involved in data collection and representation in the study of speech development; to introduce the skill of applying theoretical knowledge of phonetics and phonology to clinical data; to provide a framework for phonetic and phonological analysis of normal and disordered speech using instrumental and non-instrumental techniques; familiarise the students with IPA extensions and develop the practical skills for the transcription of clinical data.

Assessable learning outcomes:
By the end of this module students will be able to:
• Carry out accurate transcription of normal and disordered speech sounds and connected speech
• Identify and produce all the sounds from the IPA chart and its Extension chart
• Organise and analyse sets of phonological data from normal and atypical development
• Interpret disordered data samples by relating it to developmental norms and the adult phonological system
• Appraise the various instrumental techniques currently available for the analysis of speech and identify when they should most appropriately be used.

Additional outcomes:
• Develop critical analytical skills
• Be able to work independently and in teams, gaining and providing peer support via an ongoing process of developing practical skills
• Students will consider the issues involved in phonological assessment with relation to efficacy and workplace constrictions.

Outline content:
In this module the students will get more practice using the symbols of the IPA; they will also be introduced to the extensions of the IPA chart used in the transcription of disordered speech. The students will practise transcription of disordered speech and they will be introduced to frameworks which will help them organise, analyse and interpret speech data, and relate it to developmental norms and to the adult phonological system. The course will also introduce different types of instrumentation used in the analysis of normal and disordered speech including spectrography, laryngography and electropalatography. Practical experience of using and analysing data with these techniques are given and independent study in the speech laboratory is encouraged.

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:
The teaching for this module starts in the Autumn term and will continue in the Spring term. There will be 5 lectures on Instrumental Phonetics supplemented by 3 practical sessions in the Autumn term. There will also be 6 lectures on Clinical Phonetics and Phonology. In the Spring term there will be 10 practical transcription sessions.

Contact hours:

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Lectures	11
Tutorials/seminars
Practicals	3	10
Other contact (eg study visits)
Total hours	14	10
Number of essays or assignments
Other (eg major seminar paper)		2 assignments, 1 practical test

Assessment:
Coursework: Phonological data-analysis assignment of 1000 words. This is to be submitted in the last week of the Spring term. A practical test at the end of the Spring term on the sounds of the IPA and its extensions. An instrumental analysis assignment in the first week of the Spring term.

Relative percentage of coursework: 100%: (10% for the data analysis assignment, 80% for the practical test and 10% for the instrumental analysis assignment).

Penalties for late submission: Penalties for late submission of coursework will be those specified by the university.

Examination: None

Requirements for a pass: Not less than 40%.

Reassessment arrangements: Re-assessment by 1st September.