Course Catalog 2013-2014
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Course Catalog 2013-2014

KIE-04006 Introduction to the Study of Language, 3 cr

Additional information

The course is particularly recommended to those doing languages as a minor subject. When a course is over-subscribed, i.e. there are more sign-ups than places on the course, then we enrol the required number of students according to the sign-up time and target group. Students on the sign-up / waiting list have to be present on the first day of the course to be sure of retaining their place.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Sari Isokääntä

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student will have an overall understanding of what human language is and how it can be described at different levels of analysis. The student will be familiar with the most central terms and methods of linguistics, and will be able to apply some of these in the analysis of language samples. He or she will be able to comment on and discuss some everyday linguistic phenomena, and explore and present a language-related topic to others in English.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. I. Linguistics & the nature of human languages  Language families  History of linguistics  
2. II. The description of structural elements of language: sounds and sound patterns, words and their components, and sentence structures  The articulatory system  Forensic linguistics 
3. III. Linguistic meaning and language use in context  Corpus linguistics  Psycholinguistics 
4. IV. Social and regional variation in language  Language change  Anthropological linguistics 

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

Active participation, successful completion of project work and a final exam.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
KIE-04006 Introduction to the Study of Language, 3 cr KIE-3446 Introduction to General Linguistics, 3 cr  

Last modified17.01.2014