Language Acquisition and Language DisruptionTutorial 1: Introduction

Things to mention:

Tea/Coffee

How have the students settled in UCD so far?Both in Linguistics and in the college as a whole.

What is a tutorial? How does it differ from a lecture? Smaller, questions, informal, relaxed, small assignments Assignments, pidgin holes, the office, A208

Department members, lecturer, contact, office hours.The Library, linguistics books

Restaurant, Bank, Daedalus, Quinn (Perk), Student’s centre, sports centre, Bars. Photocopying, Copyprint, the Copy Shop.

The course outline, reading list.

Approach to the year: Attend all classes and tutorials, view continuous assignment and revision as well as coursework.

Any Questions?

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Language Acquisition and Disruption

• Week 1: Linguistics; theories of Language Acquisition• Week 2: Phonological development• Week 3: Lexical Development• Week 4: Syntactic Development• Week 5: Pragmatic Development• Week 6: Linguistic/Emotional deprivation and language• Week 7: Cognitive impairments and language: Down Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Turners

Syndrome• Week 8: Language and Autism• Week 9: Theories of Language Processing and Production; Psycholinguistics • Week 10: Specific Language impairment, Characteristics and implications• Week 11: Language and Autism• Week 12: Language and Brain• Week 10: Aphasia: Fluent and Non-Fluent Aphasia, Agrammatism, Sign Language and Aphasia;

Neurolinguistics

Course Reading:

Barrett, M. (1999) The Development of Language.Bishop, D. (1997) Uncommon Understanding.Bishop, D. and K. Mogford (1993) Language Development in Exceptional Circumstances.Bloom, Paul (2001) How Children Learn the Meaning of Words.Caplan, D. (1987) Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: an introduction.Cattell, Ray (2000) Children's Language: consensus and controversy.Crystal, D. (1997) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.Field, John (2005) Language and the Mind.Fromkin, V., R. Rodman & N. Hyams (2003) An Introduction to Language (7th EditionFoster, Susan H. (1999) An introduction to Child Language Development.Goodluck, H. (1991) Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction.Gopnik, A., A Meltzoff and P. Kuhl (1999) The Scientist in the Crib.Greenfield, S. (2000) The Private Life of the Brain.Harley, T. (2001) Psychology of Language.Jusczyk, P. (1997) The Discovery of Spoken Language.Kent, Raymond (ed) (2004) The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders.Leonard, L. (1998) Children with Specific Language Impairment.McTear, M. (1985) Childrens' Conversations.Obler, L. & K. Gjerlow (1999) Language and the Brain.Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct.Smith, N. and I-M. Tsimpli (1995) The Mind of a Savant.Tartter, V. (1986) Language Processes.Tartter, V. (1988) Language Processing in Atypical Populations.Wilson, R. & F. Keil (1999) The MIT Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Sciences

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