Duration
30h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in psychology and education : speech and language therapy | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
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, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
- Face-to-face
- Collective practical work
- Individual exercises
Recommended or required readings
Course slides available from my.ulg.ac.be Recommended texts
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Rated individual exercices over the entire course duration. No on-site exams.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
n/a
Contacts
smajerus@ulg.ac.be emilie.veys@hel.be