Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Advanced Phonetics

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This courses deals with the following points according to their level: presentation and recognition of sounds, articulation and prosody, functioning of French phonetics system. It enables the student to improve their pronunciation, to understand the spoken French, to learn how to pronounce what is written and to write what is 
heard.

PROGRAM

Listen properly to produce properly: Study of significant or speech sounds of French:
-Vowels
-Consonants
-Semi-consonants

How do the sounds get organize:
-Transition and liking
-The fall or the hold of the (e)
-Rhythm groups and intonation

At each level, all these points are dealt with (except for the semi-consonants which are not treated at the beginner level).

OBJECTIVES

-At the advanced level, we continue the same process requesting a more expanded production, readout, transcriptions (from a written text) and decoding from a transcribed text in phonetics. Introduction to the notion of the French phonetic system. Correction in the lab.

Original Language Description

Bien entendre, pour bien produire : l'étude de sons signifiants ou phonèmes du français :
Les voyelles
Les consonne
Les semi-consonnes

Comment ces sons s'organisent :
L'enchaînement et la liasion
La chute ou le maintien du (e)
Les groupes rythmiques et l'intonation

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