2019-2020 / LOGO5006-1

Perception and production of speech

Duration

30h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits

 Bachelor in psychology and education : speech and language therapy4 crédits 

Lecturer

Steve Majerus, Emilie Veys

Coordinator

Steve Majerus

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course provides an introduction into the sensory, motor and cognitive mechanisms underlying the perception and production of human loral anguage. The normal and abnormal development of these mechanisms will also be discussed.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The student will get familiarized with the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the (receptive and productive) processing of phonetic, phonological, prosodic and lexical aspects of human speech.
The student will get familiarized with a wide range of concepts linked to speech perception and production.
The student will get familiarized with acoustic parameters and characteristics of sound waves, spectrographic analysis of speech and the way they are linked to articulatory movements.
The student will get familiarized with recent theoretical models of speech perception.
The student will get familiarized with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
The student will get familiarized with cognitive and functional mechanisms involved in speech production, including anatomo-physiological and neurological components
The student will get familiarized with the factors that underlie the development of speech perception and production.
Finally, the student will be trained in the use of psycholinguistic databases.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Psychologie du Langage

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

- Lectures - Practical work and exercises: use of psycholinguistic databases, use of sound processing software, analysis of spectrograms, learning of phonetic script and phonetic transcriptions

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

- Face-to-face
- Collective practical work
- Individual exercises

Recommended or required readings

Course slides available from my.ulg.ac.be Recommended texts

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam - open/closed questions, accounting for 70% of final score.
Individual exercises accounting for 30% of final score.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

n/a

Contacts

smajerus@ulg.ac.be emilie.veys@hel.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The course is given via a pre-recorded power-point (recorded lecture) available at my.uliege.be

Assessment subjects

Theoretical and practical content of the different lectures

Assessment methods

The written exam has been cancelled. The assesment will be based on the different exercices :
- Document Exercicescotés_PartiePerception.docx for S. Majerus ;
- TEST1 - Partie Production & TEST2 - Partie Production sur e-campus & document Exercicescotés_PartieProduction.docx for E. Veys; the last exercices will be sent on 07/05/2020
All documents need to be sent separately to each teacher (smajerus@uliege.be; emilie.veys@hel.be) before June 1st.
 

Contacts

smajerus@uliege.be
emilie.veys@hel.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Theoretical and practical content of the different lectures

Assessment methods

Same exam procedure as during the session of June:
- Document Exercicescotés_PartiePerception_Aout.doc for S. Majerus ;
- Document Exercicescotés_PartieProduction_Aout.docx for E. Veys.
 
The exercises will be available on E-Campus as from July 17 and have to be sent back to us on August 25 at the latest.  All documents need to be sent separately to each teacher, by using the following email adresses : smajerus@uliege.be; emilie.veys@hel.be.

Contacts

  smajerus@uliege.be
emilie.veys@hel.be