CMDS661-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

Clinical Linguistics and Language Acquisition

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2015

Description

In this course students evaluate the relative impact of biological, social, cultural, and cognitive factors on speech and language acquisition and critically evaluate theories proposed to account for stages of development. Students compare and contrast techniques of clinical linguistic analysis to equip them to analyse a speech-language sample collected for a case study in order to draw conclusions about the stage of speech/language development reflected by the data.

Prerequisites

Entry subject to approval by the Head of Department

Restrictions

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Weekly phonetics tutorials 25% Weekly tutorials will assess students' understanding of the content of preceding lectures on phonetics and give them practice in acoustic analysis with the Praat program, and in transcription of normal and disordered speech.
Linguisitics Test 25% This test will assess students' (i) understanding of the structural characteristics of English, and (ii) ability to analyse sentences at the clause, phrase and word levels. The test will contain (i) a number of short questions about the nature and function of certain sentence elements, and (ii) a number of sentence analysis tasks of the same kind as the class exercises.
Child case study 25% For the child study, each student will record, transcribe, and analyse a sample of a preschool child's conversational language using SALT software, and report on the child's level of speech and language development.
Phonetics Test 25% This class test will assess students' understanding of the concepts covered across terms 1 & 2.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Crystal, David; Rediscover grammar ; 3rd ed; Pearson Longman, 2004.

Owens, Robert E; Language development : an introduction ; 8th ed; Pearson, 2012.

Sheridan, Mary D. , Sharma, Ajay., Cockerill, Helen; From birth to five years : children's developmental progress ; 3rd ed., Rev. and updated ; Routledge, 2008.

Shriberg, Lawrence D. , Kent, Raymond D; Clinical phonetics ; 4th ed; Pearson Education, 2013.

Recommended Reading

Greenbaum, Sidney. , Quirk, Randolph; A student's grammar of the English language ; Longman, 1990.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $983.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 20

For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .

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