Introduction to Language and Communication Disorders
Various contemporary theories of normal and abnormal language acquisition and learning. Topics include neurological, psychological, cultural and pathological factors. Attention to the development of strong academic reading and writing abilities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: this course is of interest to students in education, behavioural and social sciences, to health professionals and to students intending to pursue subsequent professional training in speechlanguage pathology or audiology.
Introduction to General Linguistics
Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics; their evidence in language use; classification of human languages; language and society. Analysis of language data. Texts on language from Aristotle to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
American Sign Language I
Basic signing vocabulary and grammar, including a brief history of sign language. Focus on basic finger spelling, ASL terminology, expressive and receptive vocabulary, sentence structure, and conversational signs. Examination of issues in deaf culture. Introduces the 'Direct Experience' method.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
American Sign Language II
Advanced structures, including the manual alphabet, finger spelling, and American Sign Language vocabulary and grammar. Emphasis on mastery of advanced expressive and receptive vocabulary. Ongoing debates in deaf culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Principles of Language Structure for Primary and Junior Teachers
Concepts of language structure focussing on English grammar applicable to Primary and Junior school curriculum.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: designed to meet the English language requirement for the PreService program of the Faculty of Education at Brock University.
Phonetics
Phonological and phonetic features of English and possibly other languages including speech physiology, articulation, segmental and suprasegmental classifications. Lab exercises in transcription, production and auditory discrimination.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94 or permission of the Chair.
Phonology and Morphology
Analysis of sound patterns and word structures. Strong emphasis on description and analysis of data from a wide variety of languages.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94.
Syntax
Syntactic analysis focussing on English. Basic concepts, categories, rules and principles and relevant analytic techniques. Selected frameworks influential in 20thcentury linguistics.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94 or permission of the Chair.
Semantics
Sense relations, word meaning, sentence meaning and utterance meaning. Consideration of semantic universals, feature analysis and logical representation of meaning.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94 or permission of the Chair.
Language Disorders in Adults
Selected neurolinguistic features of aphasia and related adult-onset disorders of language processing and production.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F91 or PSYC 1F90.
Comparative Romance Linguistics
(also offered as MLLC 2P94)
Romance languages; their structures, related concepts, differences and mutual influences.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one of LING 1F94, FREN 1F90, GERM 1F90, ITAL 1F90, SPAN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: given in English. May be counted as part of a major program in French, Italian or Spanish.
History of the Germanic Languages
(also offered as GERM 2P95)
Development of the Germanic languages from their roots in IndoEuropean to the present day; morphology; phonology; syntax. The evolution of words through the ages.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94 or GERM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: given in English.
Students completing this course will forfeit credit in GERM 4P19 and 4P20.
Language Disorders in Children
Theories and methods of assessment and intervention for language disorders in children and youth.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 2P98 or permission of the Chair.
Introduction to Audiology
Review of anatomy and physiology of hearing. Hearing disorders from preschool to the aging populations. Approaches to prevention, assessment and treatment.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F91 or permission of the Chair.
Child Language Acquisition: Early Stages
(also offered as CHYS 2P98 and PSYC 2P98)
Theories, research and methods in early language development. Linguistic stages in the development of child language at the level of grammar and meaning (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics). Discourse as an indicator of the socialization process. The effect of interaction with care givers. Early bilingualism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F91 or PSYC 1F90 or permission of the Chair.
Child Language Acquisition: Late Stages
(also offered as CHYS 2P99 and PSYC 2P99)
Later acquired aspects of language, especially syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. Development of ability to use linguistic ambiguity, humour. Reading and writing skills, registers. Abnormal language development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 2P98 or permission of the Chair.
Students completing this course will forfeit credit in CHST 2P99.
Clinical Phonetics
Techniques for the analysis of the production of speech sounds. The use of transcription skill in the analysis and description of the speech sound of secondlanguage speakers, young children and phonologically impaired speakers of first and subsequent languages.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 2P50.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LING 2P51.
Sociolinguistics
Language in its social context: bilingualism and linguistic variation; social factors which interact with language; cultural implications of language learning and language behaviour.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94 or permission of the Chair.
Gender and Language
(also offered as WISE 3P93)
Survey of major debates concerning language, gender and power in the 20th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Pragmatics
Speech acts, implicature, politeness and deixis. Comparison of major frameworks and application of analytic techniques to relevant data.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94 or permission of the Chair.
Discourse Analysis
Topics include variation analysis, text and context, knowledge and discourse comprehension, topicality and analysis of a variety of discourse data. Collection, transcription and analysis of data pertinent to selected topics.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 3P94 or permission of the Chair.
Applications of Linguistic Theory
Critical examination of current linguistic theories and their application. Universal principles of language. Analysis of various languages. Applications may include language acquisition, Teaching English as a Second Language, communication disorders, and computational linguistics.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94.
Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Production
Structural and functional bases of respiration, phonation and articulation for the production of speech and voice. Introduction to physiological measurement and theory of speech breathing and phonation.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: LING 1F91.
Acoustic Phonetics and Speech Processing
Processes in speech production and perception. Vowel and consonant phonation, feedback mechanisms, models of production and perception.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94.
SecondLanguage Acquisition and Learning
(also offered as PSYC 3Q91)
Theories of second- or subsequent-language learning. Topics include psychological aspects of language learning (behaviourism, cognitivism, humanism), language and culture, contrastive analysis, error analysis, interlanguage.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Methodology in SecondLanguage Instruction
(also offered as PSYC 3Q92)
Approaches to teaching and learning and their influence on classroom methods. Overview of methods from the Greeks to the modern era.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 3Q91.
Special Issues in Linguistics
Selected issues in the theory and/or practice of linguistics. Topics according to specific areas of instructional expertise.
Honours Thesis
Research project carried out with faculty supervision.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: students must consult the Chair and an adviser before being admitted to the course.
Evaluation of Speech and Language Disorders
Procedures involved in the clinical evaluation of a variety of speech and language disorders across the life span. Topics include standardized testing, non-standardized measurement and frameworks for identifying speech, voice and language disorders.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Clinical Observation of Communication Disorders
Directed observation in the evaluation and treatment of speech, language, hearing and/or swallowing disorders. Observation experience includes videotape analyses and visits to offcampus clinical observation sites.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; clinical observations.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Readings in Communication Disorders
Readings and directed discussions in diverse areas of speechlanguage pathology. Topics include cultural issues in communication disorders, phonological disorders, voice disorders, stuttering and other fluency disorders, hearing loss and neurogenic disorders.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Language Testing
Theory and practice of language testing in research, teaching and clinical diagnosis. Design, analysis and critical evaluation of psychometric and pragmatic tests.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and TESL certificate students.
Bilingualism
Linguistic nature of bilingualism, models of bilingual education, linguistic abilities in bilinguals, phonological, morphological and syntactic constraints on code mixing, genetically related and unrelated languages and the organization of bilingual grammar and lexicon.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and TESL certificate students.
Topics in Sociolinguistics
Critical examination and application of current sociolinguistic theories. Topics include the analysis of language in relation to ideology, ethnicity, class, gender and power in institutional and other social settings.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Storytelling
(also offered as CHYS 4P60)
Topics include functions of storytelling, characteristics of tellers, relationship between storytelling and social identity as they apply in Canada. Experience in performance of a variety of oral narratives.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to CANA, CHYS (single or combined), LING (single or combined) and COMM (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Supervised Teaching
Class observation, including planning, managing and delivering second language instruction. Seminar discussions on current conceptual knowledge (theoretical) and perceptual knowledge (practical) highlighted with reference to the second language teaching and learning context.
Observations and seminars, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and TESL certificate students.
Listening and Speaking in a Second Language
Theories of and issues in the development of oral language processing in a second or subsequent language. Implications and applications for selected teaching and learning situations.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and TESL certificate students.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94.
Students completing this course will forfeit credit in TESL 4F03.
Reading and Writing in a Second Language
Selected theories and models underlying reading and writing ability. Their relationship to the concept of "grammar" and influence on inter-language development. Implications and applications for selected teaching and learning situations.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and TESL certificate students.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in TESL 4F05.
Materials and Curriculum Design
Theoretical foundations, development and/or adaptation of second-language syllabi; planning, managing, and delivering second-language instruction. Includes materials assessment, needs analysis and practical classroom experience.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and TESL certificate students.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in TESL 4F04.
Honours Tutorial
Directed reading and discussion on a specialized topic of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: open to LING (single or combined) majors with a minimum 70 percent major average, approval to year 4 and permission of the Chair.