COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLINICAL LINGUISTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BURCU ILKAY KARAMAN

Offered to

Linguistics

Course Objective

The objective of the course is to provide the student with a source of up-to-date scientific and clinical information relating to the whole field of normal and abnormal speech communication. Therefore, it aims to illustrate the practice as well as principles involved in applying linguistics to the analysis of language disability. Each topic therefore focusses on the main theoretical and descriptive principles needed in order to carry out a clinical linguistic analysis. The relevance of language acquisition studies is a major theme within this course, and as the application of semantics is a considerably new area to most linguists and clinicians, there is much space devoted to expounding that topic and illustrating its applications.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. to collect and analyse clinical data
2   2. to collect linguistic data, i.e. taking samples of linguistic disability
3   3. to acquire techniques of, e.g. transformational grammar, for the interpretation of schizophrenic or aphasic data
4   4. to provide an explanation for the qualitative differences between human and animal communication
5   5. to provide empirical evidence for linguistic hypotheses, i.e. to bring neurological information to bear upon linguistic theory
6   6. to take the theories, methods and findings of linguistics, and to use them as a means of elucidating the nature of pathological conditions, insofar as these are manifested in (spoken or written) language

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The scope of clinical linguistics Clinical Situations
2 Segmental phonology Phonological Acquisition
3 Phonological Disability An Example
4 Non-segmental phonology Intonational form, function, and acquisition Non-segmental disability
5 Tone units, tonicity, and tone
6 Grammar The scope of grammatical analysis Grammatical acquisition, and disability The role of a grammatical profile
7 Grammatico-semantic problems The ambiguity of grammatical error
8 MID-TERM EXAM
9 Semantics The structure of the lexicon Semantic Fields Structural Semantics Paradigmatic Relations Syntagmatic Relations Derivational Relations Componential Analysis
10 Non-Lexical Semantics Semantic Acquisition Lexical Patterns Semantic Field Emergence
11 Semantic Mismatch Semantic Features Semantic Fuzziness Lexeme Relations
12 Sentential Functions Types of Semantic Disability
13 Lexical Delay Lexical Deviance Sentential Delay Sentential Deviance
14 Diagnosis and Management

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Ball, Martin J. et. al. (eds.) (2008) The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics. Malden & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
2. Crystal, David (1981) Clinical Linguistics. Disorders of Human Communication 3. Wien: Springer Verlag.
3. Cummings, Louise (2008) Clinical Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
4. Fava, Elisabetta (ed.) (2002) Clinical Linguistics: Theory and Applications in Speech Pathology and Therapy. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Presentations
3. Diagnosis

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1. Mid-term exam
2. Final exam

Assessment Criteria

1. Learning outcomes 1-6 will be evaluated through mid-term and final examinations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1- Class attendance of 70% is obligatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

burcu.karaman@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By Appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 26 26
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1555555
LO.255555
LO.355555
LO.455555
LO.555555
LO.65555

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