| Course Title | Code | Semester | L+U Hour | Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics 1 | İÖZ207 | 3. Semester | 3 + 0 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| Prerequisites | None |
| Language of Instruction | English |
| Course Level | Undergraduate |
| Course Type | |
| Mode of delivery | face to face |
| Course Coordinator |
Assist. Prof. Dr. Yusuf ŞEN |
| Instructor(s) |
Yusuf ŞEN |
| Assistants | |
| Goals | The objective of this course is to introduce fundamental concepts of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, language and brain development, artificial languages and semantics |
| Course Content | Basic concepts in linguistic analysis; the nature, structure and use of language by way of awareness raising activities, error analysis of language learners’ production, case studies, and comparative analysis of native and target languages; the components of language as a system: linguistic competence and performance, branches of linguistics, types of grammar, language universals, creativity of linguistic knowledge, arbitrariness of language, sign languages, artificial languages and animal communication; brain and language, lateralization and handedness, evolution of language, human language processing models, research on language and disorders (e.g., dichotic listening, split brain, WADA); phonetics: acoustic, auditory and articulatory phonetics, speech organs, phoneme, vowels and consonants, IPA, diphthongs, tripthongs, manner and place of articulation; phonology: sound patterns, assimilation, dissimilation, linking, consonant clusters, silent letters, suprasegmentals, stress and intonation; semantics: componential analysis, entailment, semantic relations, sense and reference, collocational meaning |
| Learning Outcomes |
- Students will be able to define major branches of linguistics - Students will be able to construct associations between the brain and the language - Students will be able to compare human languages, animal languages and artificial languages - Students will be able to classify human language processing models - Students will be able to name the rules and components of articulation - Students will be able to analyze word-phrase and sentential meaning |
| Week | Topics | Learning Methods |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Week | What is Language? What is Grammar? Language Universals | Course Hours Practice Research Other Activities Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Preparation, After Class Study |
| 2. Week | Animal Languages. Language and Thought | Research Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Practice Verbal Expression Other Activities Visual Presentation |
| 3. Week | Phonetics: Acoustic, Auditory and Articulatory Phonetics | Other Activities Verbal Expression Practice Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Visual Presentation |
| 4. Week | Speech organs, Phonemes, Place and Manner of Articulation, International Phonetics Alphabet | Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Preparation, After Class Study Research Course Hours Other Activities Practice |
| 5. Week | Phonology: sound patterns | Visual Presentation Practice Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Verbal Expression |
| 6. Week | The Rules of Phonology | Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Practice Verbal Expression Other Activities Visual Presentation |
| 7. Week | Phonological Analysis | Preparation, After Class Study Research Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Practice Course Hours Other Activities |
| 8. Week | Midterm 1 | Other Activities Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Practice Preparation, After Class Study Research Course Hours |
| 9. Week | Language and Brain Development | Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Course Hours Research Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Practice |
| 10. Week | Human Language Processing. Arificial Languages | Practice Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Research |
| 11. Week | Midterm 2 | Practice Course Hours Research Other Activities Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Preparation, After Class Study |
| 12. Week | Language Disorders | Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Verbal Expression Practice Visual Presentation |
| 13. Week | Semantics: Componential Analysis | Other Activities Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Course Hours Research Preparation, After Class Study Practice |
| 14. Week | Final | Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Visual Presentation Practice Verbal Expression |
| Fromkin, V.; Rodman, R.; Hymes, N. (2014) An Introduction to Language, Wadsworth Publishing Denham, K. & Lobeck, A. (2013), Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction, Second Edition, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning |
| Program Requirements | Contribution Level | DK1 | DK2 | DK3 | DK4 | DK5 | DK6 | Measurement Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PY1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 60 |
| PY2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 60 |
| PY3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 60 |
| PY4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 60 |
| PY5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 60 |
| PY6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 60 |
| PY7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 60 |
| PY8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 60 |
| PY9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 60 |
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course's Level of contribution | None | Very Low | Low | Fair | High | Very High |
| Method of assessment/evaluation | Written exam | Oral Exams | Assignment/Project | Laboratory work | Presentation/Seminar |
| Event | Quantity | Duration (Hour) | Total Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Research | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Practice | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| Midterm 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Final | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total Workload | 78 | ||
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 4.0 | ||
