Course Description

Calendar Description

This course will provide students with the fundamentals of linguistic and psycholinguistic theory. Students will explore the nature of language and the basic components studied by psycholinguists. They will also gain an understanding of language development as well as the biological basis of language. Language processes such as comprehension, reading, and speaking will also be explored along with the current models of comprehension and production.

Course Learning Outcomes

After completing this course students will be able to:

1. Define the characteristics of language and language families
2. Recognize the language families of Canada
3. Explain the basic principles of experimental and neuroimaging techniques used in psycholinguistics
4. Identify the units of language
5. Classify phonemes according to place and manner of articulation
6. Categorize morphemes and morphological typology
7. Identify syllables as units of speech and the rules of syllabification
8. Understand the biological basis of language
9. Understand the neuroanatomy of language
10. Describe bilingualism and models of bilingualism
11. Summarize the stages of language production
12. Categorize the various writing systems used around the world
13. Appraise the evidence for current psycholinguistic models of reading
14. Generalize current models of reading to indigenous and other language
15. Interpret the evidence from dyslexia in explaining aspects of the dual-route model of reading
16. Examine the evidence for speech production models
17. Compare and contrast the evidence for current speech production models

Modules

1. Speaking in Tongues
2. The Sounds of Language
3. The Parts of Speech
4. The Biological basis of Language
5. Learning to Speak
6. Bilingualism
7. Visual Language
8. Reading
9. Speaking

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