Language Laboratory B2

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

• Exercises of pronunciation and recognition of vowel and consonant sounds;
• Comparison of graphic units and their phonetic equivalents in different contexts;
• Exercises of pronunciation of sentences and texts of different registers and typologies;
• Teacher-student and student-student verbal interaction;
• Listening and repetition of words, sentences, texts, poems and songs;
• Exercises to develop spontaneous production;
• Fill in exercises;
• Oral comprehension exercises;
• Identification of words of minimal pairs;
• Phonetic record;
• Metalinguistic reflection

Learning Outcomes

The course’s main objectives are those defined for level B2 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Specifically, this course aims to develop students’ skills in phonology and pronunciation, at the level of both understanding and performance, enabling them to establish relations between phonic and graphic units. The course’s main objectives are those defined for level B2 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Thus, at the end of the course, students should be able to:

a) Understand speech by a native speaker;

b) Correctly pronounce the sounds of Portuguese;

c) Interact with native speakers on familiar topics and activities in everyday situations;

d) Communicate with spontaneity and ease with native speakers;

e) Produce clear speech on a wide variety of topics;

f) Understand the main ideas of complex speech on both concrete and abstract topics;

g) Recognize the relationship between graphic and phonic units in complex utterances.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a. Vowel and consonant sounds in standard Portuguese (review);
b. 'Glides' and falling oral and nasal diphthongs (review);
c. Hiatuses and rising diphthongs (review);
d. Phoneme / grapheme correspondence;
e. The main stress in verbs and non verbs;
f. Reduction of unstressed vocalism;
g. Syntactic phonetics: sibilant consonants at the end of syllables;

h. Rules for placing graphic accents;
i. Phenomena of vowel alternation in nouns, adjectives and verbs;

j. Intonation: declarative, interrogative (with pronouns), imperative and exclamatory sentences.

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristina Isabel Garcia Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Continuous assessment (40%) + Final Oral Examination (60%): 100.0%

Bibliography

• Mateus, Maria Helena Mira e Andrade, Ernesto d’ (2000) The Phonology of Portuguese. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mateus, M. et alii (2003) Gramática da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Editorial Caminho (5ª ed. revista e aumentada; capítulos 25. Fonologia e 26. Prosódia).
• Mateus, M. et alii (2005) Fonética e Fonologia do Português. Lisboa Universidade Aberta.

Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001) Lisboa: Editorial Verbo, 2 vols.