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Prof. Nalibow
421 Waterman
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PHONE: 6-1474; H: 864 4881
E-mail - kenneth.nalibow@uvm.edu

Russian 101 - Phonology

Русский язык 101 - Фонология

                            Syllabus
                 Курсовой план

Required Texts:
Курсовые материалы


RUSSIAN PHONETICS, INTONATION, ELEMENT ORDER

1.  Брызгуиова, Звуки и интонация русской речи. Русский язык, Москва.
2.  Налибов, Пособие по звукам и интонационным конструкциям русской речи.                                           
3.  Налибов, Введение в порядок слов на русском языке.
4.  Муханов, ред. Налибовым, Интонация в русской диалогической речи

The Bryzgunova is a paper bound volume in the UVM Store.

Items #2-4 are available as one publication from the University Store. This should be on the shelf with the Брызгунова.


The Брызгунова and the Муханов are accompanied by audio materials.  CD's with the audio from the entire semester will be supplied to you at our Language Resource Center.  Digitized lab materiasl are also on line for home practice where you have a DSL, T-100, or similar high speed download connection.

Lab assignments are also available to you on line for home practice at The UVM Language Resource Center Home Page  http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmlrc/.   The user name is: Russian .  The password is:  uvmrussian. These are  CASE SENITIVE items.; they must be typed as they appear here.

The weekly, graded lab assignments will be forwarded to me via an "MP3" audio file.  The protocol for this is accessed via a link from the HOMEWORK page.  I shall return an MP3 comment and grade.


GRADING SYSTEM

Hour exams (dictations)                 25%
Weekly lab assignments                 30%
Preparedness and in-class participation         15%
Final examination  (oral and written)        30%

ATTENDANCE

Attendance is obligatory. The nature of this course is such that classroom and lab work cannot be readily made up. Therefore each cut of a lab will reduce your final course grade point AVERAGE by three points.  Additionally, to qualify as "finished," an assignment must be completed or handed in on time. Lab assignments may NOT be late. They are corrected the day of our lab.  Tape evaluation and grades are recorded at the end of the side you submit for that week.  For the benefit of students and the professor, there will be an "in" and an "out" tape. The same text will be read for this comparison. Past experience indicates that all parties are delightfully shocked by the improvement!

The approximate number of assignments in the course should be:

14 tape assignments - one per week.
14-28 classroom диктанты.
At least 12 assignments on element order.


Explanation - Grades for classroom performance

Classroom performance shall receive two grades. One grade shall indicate performance while you are present in the course. This grade shall reflect your preparedness, activity in the course, willingness to take part.  The second grade shall reflect unexcused absence and shall be entered on the spread sheet as a zero. Since the dates of absence shall be recorded on the computer, the amount of time averaged at "zero" shall be directly averaged with your classroom performance grade.

Example:  15 week semester
—Unexcused absences =12 (4 full weeks of a 3 day per week course).
—Classroom performance grade for time in class ==B (85) [=11 X 85 = 935]

Religious Holidays:  Students have the right to practice the religion of their choice. Each semester students should submit in writing to
their instructors by the end of the second full week of classes their documented religious holiday schedule for the semester. Faculty
must permit students who miss work for the purpose of religious observance to make up this work.

Setting up Cyrillic on your computer

For WINDOWS

If you are using XP or VISTA, go to START, >SETTINGS, >CONTROL PANEL, >REGIONAL and LANGUAGE OPTIONS.  In the drop-down menu go to >LANGUAGE and click DETAILS. Click >ADD.  In the language list find >RUSSIAN and click >OK.  When the panel closes, click OK again.  You have Cyrillic using the Russian keyboard.   The screen TRAY will now show an EN or RU.
Change the language by clicking in the tray or toggle with SHIFT + ALT.  Download the ASDF PHONETIC keyboard @ http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/russian.html   Clear directions are given on this page.  Although MAC information is listed below, the bottom of this page also contains information for phonetic keyboards in the MAC operating system.

For WINDOWS XP or VISTA, George Washington University Slavic has a website http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/gw-cyrillic/cyrilize.htm on which
you can find a download and straight-forward instructions for loading the PHONETIC KEYBOARD.
Additional information is also available at the following two sites:
http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/cyrinst.html
http://www.klm32.com/


For MAC

MAC users may enable Cyrillic from within their operating program.  The phonetic keyboard for MAC is located at
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/gavinscoolesteverrussianphonetickeyboardlayout.html . 
This is FREE shareware. The MAC phonetic keyboard download is also @ http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/wordproc.html
Go to the chart with FONTS and KEYBOARD LAYOUTS.  Download from the "phonetic" listing.