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FISIOPATOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE

Teaching Staff

VIVIAN MILAGROS DE LA CRUZ - Module Linguistics - L-LIN/01 - 4 CFU
GIUSEPPE LANZA - Module Physiopathology of communication - MED/50 - 3 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Linguistics
  

  The course aims to provide students of logopedics, the theoretical bases of linguistic communication and human phonetics and the elements and methods of analysis necessary to understanding the mechanisms underlying linguistic development and the child's acquisition of language.

• Physiopathology of communication
  

  1) To define, from a theoretical-technical point of view, the anatomical-functional structures dedicated to language and deglutition.

  2) To identify, within the normal stages of psychomotor development, the characteristics of communication in the first years of life.

  3) To know the theories on learning and the physiological development of language and its various aspects.

  4) To know the development of metaphonological, pragmatic and narrative competence.

  5) To know the development of reading and writing.

Course Structure

• Linguistics
  

  Classroom lectures.

• Physiopathology of communication
  

  Frontal interactive lessons, with slides, videos and tutorials.

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Detailed Course Content

• Linguistics
  

  The difference between "natural or human language" and "historical languages". Child language acquisition. "Suprasegmentals" and the "musicality" of language. "Segments" or units of sound: the vowel and consonant sounds of Italian and English. Phonetic transcription.

• Physiopathology of communication
  

  - Anatomy and physiology of the voice, speech, language and swallowing: voice and vocal behavior, phonatory breath and pharyngo-buccal district, regulation and dynamics of speech.

  - Stages of psycho-motor development. Characteristics and development of communication in the first years of life.

  - Theories on learning and normal language development: articulatory, phonological, semantic-lexical and morpho-syntactic development.

  - Development of meta-phonological, pragmatic and narrative competence.

  - Stages of the development of reading and writing.

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Textbook Information

• Linguistics
  

  Testo 1. G. Graffi, S. Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica, Il Mulino, 2013.
  Testo 2. Pietro Maturi, I suoni delle lingue, i suoni dell'Italiano. Nuova Introduzione alla fonetica, Il Mulino, 2014.

• Physiopathology of communication
  

  - Oskar Schindler, Antonio Schindler. Fisiologia della comunucazione. Omega Edizioni. 2001

  - Anna Emilia Berti, Anna Silvia Bombi. Corso di psicologia dello sviluppo. Il Mulino Strumenti (4° Edizione). 2018

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