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Linguistics: Linguistics

Master

This is a specialisation within the MA Linguistics

This specialisation consists of several suggested thematic routes. Each route focuses on a different research area, and consists of a selection of obligatory theme courses and suggested elective courses.

Students take the following courses:

20 EC: (At least) Theme courses
20 EC: Electives (Elective courses, internship, individual project) and/or extra theme courses
20 EC: MA thesis on a topic fitting the thematic route

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1. Theoretical Linguistics

Semester 1: Advanced Syntax 1, Advanced Syntax 2, Cross-Linguistic Variation in Semantics, Advanced Phonology 1, Advanced Morphology 1
Semester 2: Comparative Syntax, Advanced Phonology 2, Bilingual Acquistion
Suggested Electives: Advanced Typology, Pragmatics, Statistics in Linguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Field Methods, Advanced topics in Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

2. Language Processing and Cognition

Semester 1: Experimental Phonetics, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Methods in Speech Processing
Semester 2: Methods in Experimental Linguistics, Forensic Speech Science, Bilingual Acquisition
Suggested Electives: Second Language Acquisition, Statistics in Linguistics, Advanced topics in Deep learning for Natural Language Processing

3. Language Description and Documentation

Semester 1: Diversity Linguistics: Africa, Asia and the Americas, Advanced Typology, Field methods, Language Documentation
Semester 2: Language Endangerment, Fieldwork Internship/practicum
Suggested Electives: Language Contact, Oral Traditions, Individual Project

4. Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Diversity

Semester 1: Diversity Linguistics: Africa, Asia and the Americas, Experimental Phonetics, Advanced Syntax 1, Advanced Morphology 1, Advanced Phonology 1
Semester 2: Fieldwork Internship/practicum, Comparative Syntax
Suggested Electives: Advanced Typology, Advanced Morphology 2, Methods in Speech Processing, Field Methods, Advanced Phonology 2

5. Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

Semester 1: Indo-European Linguistics I, Indo-European Linguistics II (Noun), Advanced Indo-European Morphology, Methodology of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Semester 2: Indo-European Linguistics II (verb), Advanced Indo-European Phonology
Suggested Electives: Anatolian Languages: Hittite and Luwian, Anatolian Historical Linguistics, Vedic Sanskrit: Language and Prehistory, Ancient Greek for Indo-Europeanists, Historical Grammar of Latin

6. Language and Communication

Semester 1: Pragmatics, Approaches to Argumentative Discourse
Semester 2: Argumentative and Rhetorical Practices, Oral Traditions, Sociolinguistics
Suggested Electives:
De Sturende Kracht van Taal,Qualitative Methods in Linguistics, Language and Communication in Africa

7. Applied Linguistics

Semester 1: Second Language Acquisition, Experimental Phonetics
Semester 2: Forensic Speech Science, Sociolinguistics
Suggested Electives: *Pragmatics, Statistics in Linguistics, Qualitative Methods in Linguistics, Methods in Speech Processing, Field Methods, Methods in Experimental Linguistics,Advanced topics in Deep learning for Natural Language Processing, Bilingual Acquisition