HESP150 SUMMER 2017

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, DEPARTMENT OF HEARING & SPEECH SCIENCES

INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE SCIENCE

Meeting time: June 5-July 14, 2017 Location: online (ELMS) Instructor: Manaar Zuhurudeen, M.A., CCC-SLP Email: manaarz@umd.edu Office hours: virtual, or by appointment Overview: This course will introduce you to the acquisition, comprehension, production and study of language. Understanding how language is used and processed in the brain is actually quite complicated and at the center of hearing and speech-based careers that aim to develop damaged systems. By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Summarize major questions and theories surrounding language acquisition and production

Outline the biological foundations of language

Explain the fundamental components of linguistics

Understand differences in language acquisition between children, adults, and second language learners

Describe similarities and differences between various languages Course text: One textbook is required for this class, Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics by Julie Sedivy (2014), ISBN: 9780878935987. The book is available for purchase at the university bookstore and online. Structure: This course is entirely online, through the course website listed on CANVAS (http://myelms.umd.edu). You will be required to complete a training module on how to use this site before the course begins. All course materials (i.e., lectures, handouts, assignments, recordings, quizzes, exams) will be posted--and submitted, where applicable--via ELMS. Office hours will also be conducted online (see more below). Announcements will be posted on ELMS and your ELMS dashboard regularly, so please be sure to visit the site multiple times per week to stay up-to-date on important course details. We will also be using the ELMS email system for course communication. When emailing me, please put “HESP150” and the topic of your inquiry in the subject line. This goes without saying, but throughout this course you are expected to adhere to proper Netiquette. This course spans six weeks. Course materials will be uploaded to ELMS and you will be required to complete one unit each week (six units total), including:

Assigned readings from the textbook

Lecture recordings and supplementary materials

Participation assignments (posting to the course’s discussion board and replying to peers’ posts; due each Thursday by 11 pm)

Quizzes (due each Friday by 11 pm)

Assignments (during non-exam weeks; due on Saturday by 11 pm) Each week, course materials will be available for you to complete on Monday mornings. See the outline below for the course material completion schedule. Assignments: You will complete four graded assignments for this course. Assignments will not be due the weeks of the midterm exam or final exam. Instructions for assignments will be provided when they are uploaded. Participation: Your participation will be graded based upon the quality of your discussion board posts and comments to peers’ posts. Participation will account for 15% of your total grade for this course; 7.5% is allocated towards your posts on the board and 7.5% is for the comments you make in response to peers’ posts. Each week (per unit), you are expected to post one comment/musing/question and reply to two posts made by peers. Do not treat the discussion board lightly! Your grade will be based on the amount of insight reflected in each question, comment or response. Summon your best budding psycholinguist vibes. Since we will not be discussing course

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material in person the discussion board is a great opportunity for meaningful interaction with your peers, which will enhance your understanding of course material. Posts and replies made after the deadline (Thursdays at 11 pm) will not receive credit.

Exams and Quizzes: The exams (i.e., one midterm and one final during the third and sixth weeks of the course, respectively) will consist of short answer, true/false, and multiple-choice questions. Since this is an online class, exams will also be online via ELMS, made available on Fridays from 9 am to 5 pm. Exams will be timed (maximum of 2 hours) and the timer will begin counting down once they are opened. Once opened, an exam cannot be paused or saved for later; it must be completed once it is open if you wish for it to be graded in its entirety. Exams will focus on information from the lectures and readings. They will assess both knowledge and understanding of key material and will require both accurate recollection of critical information and flexible application to new situations. Exams are not open book (or open-Internet!); see the Academic Dishonesty section below. Exam grades will be curved upwards to exclude frequently-missed questions and additional adjustments based on the instructor’s discretion. Weekly (i.e., unit) quizzes will be 10 questions each and must be completed by 11 pm each Friday. Like exams, quizzes will also be timed (maximum of 30 minutes, subject to change), administered online and must be completed once they are opened. During exam weeks you will have the opportunity to submit and review your quiz answers before you start the exam. Virtual Office Hours: I will be available online for two hours per week via ELMS CHAT. Days and times will be posted online. If you are unable to make the live office hours, please email me to schedule an appointment to chat. Please make use of the office hours since these will be your only chance to interact with me and your classmates in real time! Feel free to email me about simple course-related questions (you can expect a response by the end of the day), but content questions should be addressed through office hours. The week of an exam (i.e., the third and sixth weeks of the course), office hours will transform into review sessions. These sessions will be led by your questions and will not be recorded. The review sessions are meant to be helpful resources but are not intended to provide an exhaustive catalogue of what you are expected to know. Attendance at office hours and review sessions is optional, however during review sessions one exam question will be revealed prematurely. If you attend the review session, you will be able to consider this exam question a freebie. Grades: Your performance will be assessed in five parts:

1 cumulative final exam worth 30% of class grade each 30% total

1 midterm exam worth 25% of class grade each 25% total

6 unit quizzes worth 1.67% of class grade each 10% total

4 assignments worth 5% of class grade each 20% total

6 participation posts worth 2.5% of class grade each 15% total

Plus-minus grades will be based on lower cutoffs below. Minor curving upwards may occur at the instructor’s discretion. Please note that while CANVAS gives on-going estimates of grades, the ultimate and definitive guide for how your grade will be calculated is based on the percentages listed on this syllabus. A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F 97.0% 94.0% 90.0% 87.0% 84.0% 80.0% 77.0% 74.0% 70.0% 67.0% 64.0% 60.0% <60%

Policy information: Please ask if you have questions about these or other policies:

Make-up exams. Make-up exams will only be allowed for university-mandated and officially verified reasons. Since exams are conducted online and will be available during a wide access window (i.e., 9 am to 5 pm on the exam day), please make every effort to complete exams online on they date they are scheduled. If you absolutely must schedule a make-up exam, you must notify me as soon as possible and no later than the day of the exam before it is made available online (i.e., 9 am). You will need to furnish documentary support and take the exam or complete a make-up assignment by an agreed-upon date. Tentat

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Academic dishonesty. Cheating on academic work will not be tolerated in any form, and will be subject to strong penalties in this class and the university system. If you cheat on an exam or an assignment, you risk failing the class. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, misrepresenting someone else’s work as your own, falsifying any information in a citation or academic exercise, using unauthorized materials in any academic exercise, or helping (or attempting to help) another to commit an act of academic dishonesty (e.g., sharing answers on assignments). The University of Maryland has a nationally-recognized Code of Academic Integrity, administered by the Student Honor Council. As a student, you are responsible for upholding these standards for this course. It is important for you to be aware of the consequences of cheating, fabrication, facilitation, and plagiarism. For more information on the Code of Academic Integrity or the Student Honor Council, please visit http://www.shc.umd.edu.

Disabilities or special needs. If you have a disability that requires special consideration (e.g., modification of testing), please email me or contact me during office hours so that accommodations can be arranged.

School closings, delayed openings, and cancellations. Since our course is online campus closings, etc. will not affect our schedule or due dates. (To find information regarding official University closing and delays, see the university website- http://www.umd.edu.)

Proper use technology. Computers are vital for this course but should not be used to check email, Facebook, etc. during class time. Even though this is an online course, these uses of technology are detrimental to your own learning.

Copyright. The materials for this course are protected by federal copyright law as my original works. You are permitted to take notes of my lectures for your use in this course, but you may not record, reproduce, or distribute my lectures/notes for any commercial purpose without my written consent. Persons who sell or distribute copies or modified copies of my course materials, possess commercial copies of my notes (i.e., Terpnotes), or assist another person or entity in doing so may be considered in violation of the University Code of Student Conduct, part 9(k).

Online course evaluation. Your feedback about this course is very important to me. In addition to the campus-wide online evaluation at the end of the semester (CourseEvalUM), we will do additional forms of evaluations throughout the semester.

For the complete list of course-related policies, visit: http://ugst.umd.edu/courserelatedpolicies.html

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SYLLABUS OF MEETING DATES, TOPICS, AND READINGS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) Readings/assignments are due next to the listed date

UNIT DATES TOPICS & READINGS ASSIGNMENTS

1 June 5-11 Introduction and Properties of Language Chapter 1 (p. 1-7)

Tools of Science Origins of Language & Language and the Brain pt. 1

Ch. 2 (p. 9-31), Ch. 3 (p. 67-75)

Read syllabus Complete ELMS site training Listen to lectures Discussion Board posts Complete Unit 1 Quiz Submit Assignment 1

2 June 12-18 Language and the Brain pt. 2 Ch. 3 (p. 75-100) Language Diversity & Bilingualism Ch. 12 (p. 498-516)

Listen to lectures Discussion Board posts Complete Unit 2 Quiz Submit Assignment 2

3 June 19-25 Speech Perception Ch. 4 (p. 105-130), Ch. 7 (p. 260-265)

Word recognition Ch. 7 (p. 233-259)

Listen to lectures Discussion Board posts Complete Unit 3 Quiz rec: review session

MIDTERM EXAM Friday June 23

4 June 26-July 2 Syntax Ch. 6 (p. 185-200), Ch. 8 (p. 279-295, 295-323)

Pragmatics Ch. 10 (p. 373-401), Ch. 11 (p. 435-447)

Listen to lectures Discussion Board posts Complete Unit 4 Quiz Submit Assignment 3

5 July 3-9 *July 4-Holiday

Language Production Ch. 9 (p. 329-371)

Ch. 7 (p. 256-257)

Listen to lectures Discussion Board posts Complete Unit 5 Quiz Submit Assignment 4

6 July 10-14 Language Acquisition Ch. 4 (p. 130-143), Ch. 5 (p.151, 168-170), Ch. 6 (p. 200-231) Ch. 8 (p. 321-328)

Listen to lectures Discussion Board posts Complete Unit 6 Quiz rec: review session

FINAL EXAM Friday July 14

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