Course: German Pronunciation Exercises 2

ECTS credits: 1

Language: German

Duration: one semester

Status: obligatory

Course type: 1 hour of exercises

Enrolment requirements: none

Course description: This course covers following topics: 1. introduction, theory; 2. theory and exercises: central vowel: 3. theory and exercises: fricatives; 4.-5. theory and exercises: “Ich-Laut “and “Ach-Laut”; 6.-8. theory and exercises: plosives and final-obstruent devoicing; 9.-10. theory and exercises: nasal consonants and glottal stop; 11. theory and exercises: the sound „l“; 12.-13. theory and exercises: the sound „r“; 14. repetition; 15. exam preparation.

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to correctly pronounce elements of standard language including melody sentence and accent, apply phonetic theory and transcription and recognize existing gaps by means of contrastive analysis.

Teaching methods: teaching through seminars and exercises and teacher-led demonstrations in the classroom, presentations; classroom discussion; fieldwork

Literature: Anđel, Maja: Kompendium der Phonetik und Phonologie, Zagreb: FF Press 2014; Gehrmann, Siegfried: Deutsche Phonetik in Theorie und Praxis. Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 1995; Rausch, Rudolf / Ilka Rausch: Deutsche Phonetik für Ausländer. Berlin, 1991; Magerski, Christine/ Ilse, Janina: Phonetik (skripta); Das Aussprachewörterbuch. Duden Band 6, Dudenverlag, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich, 1990; Evelyn Frey: Kursbuch Phonetik. Lehr- und Übungsbuch, Ismaning: Max Hueber Verlag, 1995; Ursula Hirschfeld, Kerstin Reinke, Eberhard Stock: Phonothek intensiv. Aussprachetraining, Berlin und München: Langenscheidt KG 2007.

Evaluation Methods and Grading: class attendance, oral exam