This course provides a systematic study of linguistic theories, methods and findings concerning the description of natural language, Language acquisition and learning, intelligibility, normal and impaired speech, language developmental and acquired disorders.
Covering areas of human speech development, production and perception, prosody, language variation and bilingualism, students will be able to understand how does brain process language, the effects of neurological disorders and brain injury on language use. They will become familiar with the tools most often used for language, speech and voice analysis, such as FEELtrace (evaluating dynamics of speech), Hoarseness Diagram (properties of normal and pathological voices) and PRAAT (speech and phonetics analyses).