Rubric & Grade Sheet for Lingustisics Midterm
Name of the Class: Linguistics 06-314-01
Project Title: Understanding An “American Girl” (working title)
Project Overview: In our project, Melissa and
I will be translating the song “American Girl” into Russian and the
International Phonetic Alphabet and looking for patterns in visual rhymes of
the lyrics.
Prepared by: Michael
Cotter & Melissa Gura
Project
Summary Melissa & I will be
using the song “American Girl” to work with for our project. I, in particular,
was drawn to this song because it has, what I could consider, interesting
rhymes and words for a pop song with a few fun sounds like “whoa” or “oh” that
will be interesting to translate to the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Melissa will translate the lyrics of the song into Russian and in doing so we
can compare words that are vastly different or similar to their English counter
parts as well as any pattern that might arise in looking at the end rhyme of
the lyrics. I will be working on translating the English song lyrics in the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and, again, looking at any patterns shown
in the end rhymes of the words and what sounds exactly make the end words
rhyme.
Project
Methodology
Ideally,
our project will feature a hand-out of the IPA lyrics and we will have a bit of
a “Name That Tune” exercise to see if anyone can guess the song from a segment
of the translation – likely a segment of the chorus or the title and singer’s
name. We will also provide side-by-side of the English and Russian lyrics to
allow the class to look for patterns, much like we did in our project. We will
present our findings in a short PowerPoint full of charts and other visual aids and
we will present the music video for the song with the IPA subtitles running on
the screen.
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