NEUROLINGUISTICS
cod. 08439

Academic year 2008/09
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Neuropsichiatria infantile (MED/39)
Field
Scienze interdisciplinari cliniche
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
15 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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Course unit divided into the following partitions:

Integrated course unit module: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROLINGUISTICS

Learning objectives

<br />The Course in Neurolinguistics aims atproviding the basic notions on the structural components of the language systemand on the acquisition processes thereof. The main clinical and diagnostictools will be presented for the assessment of language disorders. Likewise,several clinical cases will be presented and discussed

Prerequisites

<br />Studentsare required to have a basic mastery of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology<br /> 

Course unit content

<br />Neuroembriology <br />Genes and cortical areas<br />Hemispheric Dominance<br />Concepts of General Linguistics<br />Phonology<br />Articulatory and perceptual phonetics<br />Morphology<br />Syntax<br />Lexicon and Semantics<br />Pragmatico<br />Language percetion<br />Language production<br />Neurolinguistic Assessment<br />Neurolinguistic TAxonomy<br />Anarthria<br />Phonological Disorders<br />Morpho-Syntactic Disorders<br />Lexical Disorders<br />  

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Bibliography

<br />Suggested Reading:<br />A. Marini: Elementi di PsicolinguisticaGenerale. Springer, 2004 € 29,95<br />N. Florida: Argomenti di Neurolinguistica:Ed Il Cerro, € 19,50<br /> <br />For a more detailed inquiry on the originand structure of Language:<br />N. Chomsky: Nuovi orizzonti nello studiodel linguaggio e della mente. Il Saggiatore 2005, € 22,00<br /> <br /> 

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