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Latvian Language Culture and Phonetics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:14.08.2024 08:57:33
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_157 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 6.00 | ECTS: | 9.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Rehabilitation | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Solveiga Čeirane | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 11 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 22 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 21 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 42 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 64 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge in Latvian acquired at a secondary school. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To supplement knowledge about Latvian Standard; to provide a basic knowledge in phonetics and phonology; to promote the use and extension of specific vocabulary for academic and professional needs. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introductory lecture. Principles of individual work. Culture of language as a branch of science. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Current issues of orthography. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The norms of word-formation. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The norms of word inflexion and the use of different forms; deviations from them. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Syntax and the items of syntax. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Interference. Calques. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Lexicostylistic inaccuracies in text-formation. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Norms of punctuation. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Scientific style texts, characteristic features. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Formal style texts, characteristic features. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Publicist style, characteristic features. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Stylistic analysis and literal editing of text segment, classification of mistakes. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Phonetics - a field of science. Methods of phonetic research. Phonetic research of the Latvian language. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Articulatory phonetics. Speech production. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Traditional phonetic transcription of the Latvian language. Symbols of Latvian sounds. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 16 | Classification and problems of the sound system of Standard Latvian. Analysis of vocals and consonants. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 17 | Meaning of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in Latvian phonetics. Classification and symbols of Latvian sounds. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 18 | Theories and schools of phonology. Development of phonology in Latvia. Relationships of phonetics and phonology. The importance of acoustic phonetics. Phonological structure. Suprasegmental features: syllable, stress and intonation. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 19 | Phonological processes and rules of the Latvian language. Positional and historical phoneme changes, their analysis. Pronunciation conditions for phonemes /e/, /e/. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 20 | Children language phonemic development and its problems. Phonological basis of the Latvian language acquisition tests. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 21 | Acoustic phonetics - a field of science. Development of acoustic phonetics in Latvia. Available software for acoustic analysis. | Lectures | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 22 | Spectral analysis: Latvian vowels, diphthongs and consonants. Problems in the acoustic description of sounds. | Classes | 7.00 | computer room | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The student searches and analyzes texts that include errors from the norms of the standard variety, and studies theoretical resources describing the possibilities of preventing such errors. Latvian and international phonetic transcription of the text using the phonetic alphabet must be performed. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1) Individual work “Complecting and analysing of language errors” (25%); 2) an evaluation of the quality of scientific text, an evaluation of the quality of technical document (25%); 3) classification of the Latvian sounds (25%); 4) Latvian phonetic transcription, phoneme changes (25%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On completion of the course, the student will be able to: • use the current terminology related to issues of language culture; • know the most common errors of language culture; • manage most important resources of issues of Latvian language culture; • know functional styles of language and their typical units; • use the current terminology related to issues of phonetics and phonology; • know how to classify sounds of the Latvian language; • know how to use Latvian and International phonetic transcription; know how to analyse sounds of the Latvian language by using spectral features. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On completion of the course, the student will be able to: • identify, classify and analyse errors of standard language use; • classify and explain errors according to the theoretical resources; • debate on language errors; • edit texts of different styles according to the Latvian Standard norms; • classify Latvian sounds according to phonetic and phonology rules; • apply symbols of phonetic transcription in practice; • use a software for acoustic analysis. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On completion of the study course, the students will be able to: • develop texts of different functional types, • identify errors of various language levels, • correct and explain them using theoretical resources; • use phonetic transcription for professional needs in speech therapy; use the classification of Latvian sounds according to phonetic and phonology rules. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nītiņa, Daina, Grigorjevs, Juris (red.) (2015). Latviešu valodas gramatika. Rīga: LU Latviešu valodas institūts. | ||||||||
| 2 | Veisbergs, Andrejs (red.) (2013). Latviešu valoda. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Krūmiņa, Veronika, Skujiņa, Valentīna. (2002). Normatīvo aktu izstrādes rokasgrāmata. Rīga: Valsts Kanceleja. | ||||||||
| 2 | Skujiņa, Valentīna. (2014). Latviešu valoda lietišķajos rakstos. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC. | ||||||||
| 3 | Freimane, Inta. (1993). Valodas kultūra teorētiskā skatījumā. Mācību līdzeklis. Rīga: Zvaigzne. | ||||||||
| 4 | Laua, Alise. (1997). Latviešu literārās valodas fonētika. Rīga: Zvaigzne. | ||||||||
| 5 | Markus, Dace, Grigorjevs, Juris. (2002). Fonētikas pētīšanas un vizualizēšanas metodes. I. Fonētikas pētīšanas metodes. Rīga: Rasa ABC. | ||||||||
| 6 | Grigorjevs, Juris. (2010). Latviešu valodas līdzskaņu klasifikācija. Latvistika un somugristika Latvijas Universitātē. Rīga: LU Humanitāro zinātņu fakultāte, 22-30. | ||||||||
| 7 | Grigorjevs, Juris. (1998). Spektrogrāfijas metode un tās loma mūsdienu akustiskajā fonētikā. Baltu filoloģija VIII, 619. sēj. Rīga: LU, 34-42. | ||||||||
| 8 | Strautiņa, Vaira, Šulce, Dzintra. (2004). Latviešu literārās valodas fonētika, ortoepija un ortogrāfija. Liepāja: LiePA. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | https://ailab.lv/ | ||||||||
| 2 | https://www.letonika.lv/ | ||||||||
| 3 | https://tezaurs.lv/ | ||||||||
| 4 | https://termini.gov.lv/ | ||||||||
| 5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNrmiJQ4dI | ||||||||
| 6 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-RVpvofhSY | ||||||||
