linguistics -Third year
Semester: 06
Teaching Unit: Fundamental
Module: Linguistics
Credits: 04
Coefficient: 02
Course Objective
o To develop students theoretical knowledge about the discipline
Subject Contents
1. Introduction to psycholinguistics (origin, definitions, concepts and issues)
2. The nature of human language as cognitive and communicative system
3. Language, culture and thought
4. Theories of first language acquisition
4.1 The nature vs. nurture debate: behaviorism or an innate capacity for acquisition?
4.2 The Social Theory of Language Acquisition
4.3 The cognitive basis of language.
5. Language comprehension and production.
6. Language loss