Universität Wien

160124 VO Patholinguistics (2020W)

Patholinguistics: Language disturbances and the language/brain interface

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Digital

  • Monday 05.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 12.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 19.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 09.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 16.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 23.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 30.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 07.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 14.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 11.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 18.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital
  • Monday 25.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of the course is to provide the students of linguistics with a conceptual framework about the structure of some major language disturbances, and their relevance to understand the organization of language. Though it is not a practical course in clinical linguistics, it shall also discuss some of the methods used in patholinguistics in their basic layout and theoretical foundations.
The course shall consist of three basic teaching packages: brain and language (aphasia and neurological language disorders); developmental linguistic pathology (SLI, Williams, Down, Asperger syndromes); conversational psychopathology (psychotic talk, breakups of schizophrenic conversation, the issue of relevance and phoricity).

Weekly distance lectures with PPTs uploaded, accompanied by reading discussions one week in each package. Lectures shall be distance organized. Reading discussions if possible, shall be organized in person in Vienna.

Assessment and permitted materials

a final written exam of 50 questions about the entire semester shall be administered, in a one hour testing time. Students who would volunteer for minor tasks (3 of them) during the course time shall het 15 points towards their final assessment

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimal requirement: 60 %

Examination topics

The course shall consist of three basic teaching packages: brain and language (aphasia and neurological language disorders); developmental linguistic pathology (SLI, Williams, Down, Asperger syndromes); conversational psychopathology (psychotic talk, breakups of schizophrenic conversation, the issue of relevance and phoricity).

Reading list

Papers to be discussed
Bishop, D. (2001). Genetic and environmental risks for specific language impairment in children. Philos. Transc. Royal Soc., B, 356, 369-380
Gopnik, M.Crago, M. B.: Familial Aggregation of a Developmental Language Disorder. Cognition, 1991. 39, 150.
Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1998). Development itself is a key to understanding developmental disorders.Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2, 389398
Liegeois, F. Connelly, A. Cross, J. Boyd, S. Gadian, S. Vargha-Kadem, F. (2004). Language reorganization in children with early-onset lesions of the left hemisphere. Brain, 127, 12291236
Marcus, G. F. and Fisher, S. E. (2003). FOXP2 in focus: what can genes tell us about speech and language? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 257-262.
Pinker, S. (1991). Rules of language. Science, 253, 530-555
Pléh, Cs. (2006). Using Hungarian language to clarify language-thought relations in impaired populations. Hungarian Studies, 20, 233-244
Rochester, S. R. Martin, J. R. Thurston, S. (1977). Thought-process disorder in schizophrenia: The listener’s task. Brain and Language, 4, 95114.
Schnell, Zs, Herold, R., Tényi, T. and Varga, E (2019). Fuzzy Boundaries and Fuzzy Minds, In: Furkó, P, et al (eds.). Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies, Palgrave Macmillan (2019) pp. 181-211
Ullman M.T. (2004). Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model. Cognition,92, 231-70.
van der Lely, H.K.J. and Pinker, S. (2014). The biological basis of language: insight from developmental grammatical impairments. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 586-595

Background reading list is provided on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

MA1-M1

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