This course aims:
1) at introducing students to the main speculative approaches in the field of linguistic acquisition research.
2) at providing the students with the theoretical basis and analysis methods of linguistic comunication, of Phonetics and Phonology, of Morphology and Syntax and Pragmatis, needed in order to analyze the relevant data about linguistic acquisition and developement.
the course has the objective:
Lectures and laboratory activities
The course is divided into three parts.
The first part (A - The acquisition of language lexicon: theories and methods), to be considered introductory, focuses on the development of denominational activity in children and on the debating issue concerning the acquisition and consequent structuring of the lexicon (with all its grammatical properties).
The second part (B - Phonetics and Phonology) - based on the knowledge and skills acquired by the students during the Glottology and Linguistics of the first year - is an in-depth study of phonetics and phonology and also it places particular attention on sounds outside the system phonetic of the standard Italian.
The third part (C - Morphology and Syntax), having framed and given speculative depth to the concepts of “grammar”, “error”, “norm”, and “use” according to the most recent theoretical reflections on it, addresses the two levels of Morphology and Syntax. Concerning Morphology, the lexicon structure and the rules of word formation (derivation, composition, flexion, etc.) are taken into account. Concerning the Syntax, attention is focused on the analysis of the simple sentence, complex sentence, focused sentences, and the way logical and syntactic structures emerge during the evolutionary age.
A – The acquisition of language lexicon: theories and methods
B – Phonetics and phonology
C - Morphology and Syntax