Stefan Benus' teaching
Stefan Benus' teaching
Spring 2021
Office hours: By appointment, Room 236, sbenus@ukf.sk
Current Courses
Previous courses
- Phonetics I & II
- Public Speaking
- Analysis of professional text and discourse
- Topics in Theoretical Linguistics
- Communicative text analysis
- Introduction to the study of language
- Issues and methods in the scientific study of speech
- American English
Topics for Diploma Theses
Students are encouraged to come up with their own topics related to any aspect of the sound structure of speech. Some general suggestions are listed below.
- Comparative investigation of prosody in the speech of Slovak/Hungarian and British/American news broadcasters.
- Comparative investigation of vowel quantity in English and Slovak/Hungarian.
- Experimental investigation of phonetic differences in two or more dialects of English.
- Prosodic signals for turn-taking in collaborative dialogues.
- Filled pauses
- Discourse markers