Module Code - Title:
SL4033
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LINGUISTICS AND PHONETICS 2
Year Last Offered:
N/A
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module will develop students advanced understanding and skills in domains of linguistics, building on concepts introduced in Linguistics and Phonetics 1. In this module students focus again on phonetics and phonology, and learn to apply concepts from pragmatics, psycholinguistics, semantics, and sociolinguistics to sample data and cases from speech and language therapy practice. Students will develop competence in phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet system to transcribe connected speech samples and will apply knowledge of semantics, pragmatics and psycholinguistics to analysis and planning for speech and language therapy populations.
Syllabus:
Students will develop advanced understanding and skills in domains of linguistics and phonetics. Content includes: Psycholinguistic processing models and concepts¿ Speech perception and processing¿ Sentence processing and parsing; Lexical semantics, sense relations, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy and metaphor and access; Pragmatics features of conversation and discourse management; Theories of interaction and emergentism; Relevance theory, speech act theory, register, coherence and cooperative principles¿ Non-verbal communication including symbol and sign-based communication, and; Phonetics (transcription, application of International Phonetic Alphabet, suprasegmentals and prosody).
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Demonstrate how concepts of pragmatics can explain the nature of communication strengths and challenges in interactions
Apply models of sentence comprehension to difficulties in inferencing and reading comprehension, having regard for the contribution of syntactic-semantic and pragmatic knowledge to parsing.
List examples of how semantic concepts can be applied to speech and language management.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Perform conversational analysis through the identification of core features in conversational interactions and speech acts.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Students attend weekly lectures and tutorials. The module is built on a structured, interactive delivery approach, that includes prior engagement in pre-recorded and/or signposted materials on core linguistic and phonetic concepts followed by in person classes and tutorials (graduate attributes: responsible, agile, curious). The latter involve a mixture of direct instruction and applied description and transcription analyses. The teaching and learning approaches afford students opportunities to apply and articulate their developing knowledge to child and adult communication samples and settings (graduate attributes: articulate, agile). Student learning is enriched by content from a variety of sources including, text books, papers, web-based resources and guidelines and is updated yearly to reflect recent research and developments in this area.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Ball, M. J., & Gibbon, F. E. (2013)
Handbook of vowels and vowel disorders
, Psychology Press
Ball, M. & Müller, N (2005)
Phonetics for Communication Disorders
, Laurence Erlbaum
Dehaene, S (2019)
Reading in the Brain, the New Science of How we Read
, Penguin
Harley, Trevor (2014)
The psychology of language: from data to theory
, Psychology Press
Homes J, Wilson N (2022)
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Learning about Language)
,
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BSSLTHUFA - SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
carol-anne.murphy@ul.ie