Speech and Language Disorders: Introduction (AMV415G)

The course provides students with an overview of speech pathologists' main subject areas within an Icelandic setting. This is a vast and diverse domain, ranging from the diagnosis and treatment of dysphagia and aphasia in adults, to language impairment and speech sound disorders in children. The course will intertwine essential terms and knowledge with more practical approaches to the material. Furthermore, students should gain the skills necessary to acquaint themselves with relevant research and peer-reviewed articles within the field of speech-language pathology.

Introduction to Linguistics (ÍSL110G)

The course gives an introduction to linguistics and methods of linguistic analyses. The goal is to acquaint students with the nature of human languages and the main features of Icelandic grammar. 

Statistics I (SÁL102G)

The main topics of this course are descriptive statistics and exploratory data analysis. Measures of central tendency and spread will be covered as well as Pearson's correlation and simple linear regression. The use of graphs to display distributions and relationships is emphasised. Sampling designs, probability theory and sampling distributions are also addressed.

Distance learning is not an option for this course. Students are expected to attend all lectures.

The Acquisition of Language (ÍSL508G)

This course is a survey of linguistic research on first language acquisition, in particular, although we will also look at bilingualism and the acquisition of second and foreign languages. We will be concerned with the question of how young children acquire their native language. The primary focus is on (1) the biological foundations of language and the effects of the language environment on young children's language acquisition, and (2) grammatical development in language acquisition, i.e. how children develop the system of rules - syntactic, semantic, morphological, phonological - which comprise the grammar of their language, and acquire its vocabulary. In the course, we will concentrate on Icelandic language development, although we also look at language development in English and other languages.

The number of student in this course is limited to 70.

The Linguistic System - Sounds and Words (ÍSL209G)

An introductory course in Icelandic phonetics, phonology, and morphology. The basics of acoustic phonetics and Icelandic articulatory phonetics will be introduced, accompanied by training in phonetic transcription. The main concepts of phonology will be presented, followed by an overview of sound alternations in Icelandic and their conditions. Basic concepts in morphology will be presented and the main word formation processes in Icelandic and their productivity will be dealt with. Grammatical categories in Icelandic will be outlined, the inflection of the main parts of speech will be described, and an overview given of inflectional classes and variations.

Statistics II (SÁL203G)

The main subject of the course is inferential statistics. The course will cover, for example, estimation based on sample information, confidence intervals, sample distribution, hypothesis tests, t-tests and chisquare-tests. Students work on assignments in parallel with lectures.

Developmental psychology (SÁL414G)

This course provides an overview of developmental literature, theory and research. Topics include cognitive, social and physical development from birth to adolescence, described in the context of developmental theory and research.  Students complete individual empirical research projects and submit a research report, as well as sitting multiple choice examinations.

Psychometrics/Measurement theory (SÁL418G)

Overview of psychometrics and measurement theory, test construction and interpretation of psychological tests. Exercises and classroom demonstrations emphasize conventional item analysis, reliability and exploratory factor analysis.