- Docente: Gloria Gagliardi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: L-LIN/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the students will acquire an exhaustive knowledge of theoretical and methodological foundations of language sciences. The course will provide the students with the basic notions and procedures for linguistic analysis, as well as with the appropriate terminology. At the end of the course, the students will be able to analyze the structure and functions of different types of texts.
Course contents
The course aims at giving the students the basic notions about human language and natural languages.
The following topis will be focused:
- Human language
- Natural languages
- Linguistic and communicative competence
- The linguistic sign
- The properties of human language
- The distinction between phonetics and phonology
- The classification of vowel and consonants
- The notion of word and morpheme
Readings/Bibliography
Reference handbook: Berruto, G. / Cerruti, M. (2011), La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo , Torino, UTET
Teaching methods
The course is mainly based on traditional lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral colloquium.
Teaching tools
PowerPoint slides and other resourses will be used in order to illustrate the contents and to provide examples and schemas.
Teaching materials will be available on Moodle.
Links to further information
http://gloriagagliardi.altervista.org/
Office hours
See the website of Gloria Gagliardi