17780 - Glottology and Linguistics

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Nicola Grandi
  • 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

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 acquisition of the native languages - The distinction between phonetics and phonology - The classification of vowel and consonants - The notion of word and morpheme

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 acquisition of the native languages - The distinction between phonetics and phonology - The classification of vowel and consonants - The notion of word and morpheme

Readings/Bibliography

Lessons' notes available on the virtual spaces of the University website
Reference handbook: Gagliardi, G. (2019), Linguistica per le professioni sanitarie, Bologna, Pàtron

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The assessment method will be decided in agreement with the students (the possibilities are oral exam or written exam with multiple choice questions)

Teaching tools

Power Point presentations will be available to the students on the virtual spaces of the University website

Office hours

See the website of Nicola Grandi