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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

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Provider

OpenLearn
Pricing

Free Certificate
Languages

English
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Certificate Available
Effort

12 hours
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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Human communication is vastly more complex than that of any other species we know about. It is so complex that linguists are only just beginning to identify the processes in the brain that are related to understanding language. This free course, From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language, looks at how language is understood by taking an interdisciplinary approach.

Syllabus

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1 Overview
1 Overview
2 The brain's task: the structure of language
2 The brain's task: the structure of language
2.1 Preliminaries
2.2 Generativity and duality of patterning
2.3 From ear to phoneme: the phonological problem
2.4 From phoneme to meaning: the semantic problem
2.5 From phoneme to sentence structure: the syntactic problem
2.6 Summary of Section 2
3 The brain's solution: the machinery of language
3 The brain's solution: the machinery of language
3.1 Speech perception
3.2 The anatomy of the language system
3.3 Specialisation within language areas: aphasia
3.4 Specialisation within language areas: brain scanning
3.5 Electrophysiological studies of language processing
3.6 Summary of Section 3
4 Conclusions
4 Conclusions
5 Questions and answers
5 Questions and answers
Acknowledgements

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