Linguistics for Speech and Language Pathology (LSPL-201): Course Content

Learning Outcomes

The focus of this course is to develop an insight of the language.

At the end of this course student will be enable to:

• Define and describe linguistics and language

• Identify morphology and syntactic components of language

• Understand semantics and pragmatics

• Analyze psycholinguistic aspects of language

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

• Concept of linguistics. Linguistics analysis

• Branches of linguistics

• Language: Definition, nature, properties and functions of language, Subsystems of language. 

• The scope of linguistics

• Linguistic levels

• Linguistics and related fields

• The origins of language

• Expressing ideas in speech

• Understanding what we hear, including attention and perception pre-requisites

• Language and the brain • Communication in older age

• Structural linguistics; the generative approach to language.

• The basics of phrase structure grammar; lexical information about heads; recursion and clauses; dependency relations in syntax.

MORPHOLOGY: (order changed morphology first then syntax)

• Concepts of morph, morpheme and allomorph and their relationship.

• Morphemic analysis. Morpheme types-lnflectional and derivational.

• Compounding

• Word: Definition, Types, Processes of word formation.

SYNTAX :

• All sentence types

• Syntactic analysis, I.C. analysis,

• Phrase structure grammar

• Tests For Phrase Structure

 

• Transformational grammar.

• Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• Components and functions of grammar.

• Acceptability and Grammaticality of sentences.

SEMANTICS :

• Concept of meaning.

• Different types of meanings,

• Semantic relations among words, concepts of synonyms, homonyms and antonyms.

• Semantic Relations Involved In Sentences

• Semantic ambiguity

PRAGMATICS:

Grice’s cooperative principle,

Maxims of conversation & conversational implicative Speech acts brown & Levisohn’s politeness theory. 

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS:

• Introduction to psycholinguistics. Competence and Performance distinctions.

• Language acquisition in children

• Major theories

• Application of linguistics and psycholinguistics to the field of Speech Pathology with Special reference to testing.

• (Discuss phonological, morphological, semantic, syntactic and pragmatic aspects of Pakistani languages.)

• Clinical application of linguistic theory

• Universals and particulars in language acquisition

• Browns stages of Language development

• Putting language to use: discourse development

• Bilingualism

• Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA)

• The social environment and BFLA

• Phonological acquisition and bilingualism

• Vocabulary development and BFLA

• Bilingual syntax acquisition

• Bilingualism and the mind

• Information Carrying words

• Determining the mean length of utterance

• Language analysis tools (SALT, CHILDES etc.)