About Course

EGL301 (Introduction to the Phonology of English) is the last Phonology course in the department of English, OAU. As the last of four, it contains many of the topics from EGL103 to EGL202, alongside some new phonological concepts. Rest assured, we will make the course easy and interesting with our classes and materials.

Differentiating between phonemes and allophones
Identification and pronunciation of the 44 sounds
How to establish phonemicity using minimal pairs
Free variations and their connection with British and American English
Phonemic and phonetic transcriptions
DF Analysis
Prosodic analysis
How to explain all the concepts in the course and construct your own essays on them
And a lot more.

Course Content

Theoretical Background
This introductory topic walks you through some basic and integral concepts of phonology.

Phonemes as the Foundation of Phonology

08:30
Minimal Pairs

10:04
Free Variation

09:41

Vowels in English

Consonant Sounds

Phonemes vs Allophones

Transcription

Prosodic Analysis

The English Syllable

Stress in English

Intonation

Distinctive Features Analysis (DF ANALYSIS)

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Kehinde Obayemi

8 months ago

Five stars are not enough to rate this.
My favourite part is where the pronunciation of the vowel and consonant sounds were done. It was so nice learning from a non native speaker.
Thank you for making Phonology easy and interesting.😌❤️

Godsgift Okeleke

9 months ago

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Course Content

Theoretical Background This introductory topic walks you through some basic and integral concepts of phonology.

Phonemes as the Foundation of Phonology

Minimal Pairs

Free Variation

Vowels in English

Vowel Sounds and their Classification

Monophthongs and their Parameters

Contextual Lengthening

Pronunciation of Monophthongs

Pronunciation of Diphthongs

Pronunciation of Triphthongs

Vowel Charts for Monophthongs and Diphthongs

Consonant Sounds

The Nature of Consonant Sounds and State of the Glottis

Place of Articulation

Manner of Articulation

Pronunciation of Consonant Sounds

The English Consonant Chart and Naming of Sample Contoids

The Pronunciation of the past inflection ‘ed’

The Pronunciation of the Inflection ‘s’

Problematic Consonant Sounds

Phonemes vs Allophones

Phonemes and their Allophones

The Phoneme /l/ and its Allophones

The Phoneme /n/ and its Allophones

Naming Allophones and their Environments

Transcription

Phonemic Transcription

Phonetic Transcription

Differences between Phonemic and Phonetic Transcriptions

Prosodic Analysis

Meaning, Nature and Features

The English Syllable

Phonological and Phonetic Definitions of the English Syllable

The Syllable Structure

Types of Syllable

The Tree Diagram of the Syllable

Syllable Boundary

Stress in English

Introduction

Stress Placement in Words (Word Stress)

Stress Placement in Connected Speech (Sentence Stress)

Intonation

Introduction

Intonation Tunes

Tone Unit Structure

Functions of Intonation

Distinctive Features Analysis (DF ANALYSIS)

Introduction

Sources of Distinctive Features

Redundancy

Transformation in DF Analysis

Student Ratings & Reviews

Theoretical Background
This introductory topic walks you through some basic and integral concepts of phonology.