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Language Acquisition and Language Disruption
Tutorial 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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Linguistics; theories of Language Acquisition
Phonological development
Lexical Development
Syntactic Development
Pragmatic Development
Linguistic/Emotional deprivation and language
Cognitive impairments and language: Down Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Turners
Syndrome
Language and Autism
Theories of Language Processing and Production; Psycholinguistics
Specific Language impairment, Characteristics and implications
Language and Autism
Language and Brain
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 Edition
Foster, 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