This course provides a systematic study of linguistic theories, methods and findings concerning the description of natural language, Language acquisition and learning, intelligibility, normal and impaired speech, language developmental and acquired disorders.
Covering areas of human speech development, production
and perception, prosody, language variation and bilingualism, students will be
able to understand how does brain process language, the effects of neurological
disorders and brain injury on
language use.
Clinical linguistics is the study of the numerous ways in which the unique human capacity for language can be disordered. This includes ‘language disorders’, as standardly conceived. However, it also includes disorders that result from disruption to the wider processes of language transmission and reception [. . .] Most notably, it includes all the disorders that are encountered by speech and language therapists across a range of clinical contexts’ (Cummings, 2008, p. 1).
- Teacher: ananunes, Ana Margarida Nunes