17780 - Glottology and Linguistics

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • 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)

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 (www.grandionline.net/nicola/didattica)
Reference handbook:  Berruto, G. / Cerruti, M. (2011),    La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo  , Torino, UTET

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 in the website www.grandionline.net/nicola/didattica

Links to further information

http://www.grandionline.net/nicola

Office hours

See the website of Nicola Grandi