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Linguistics: Theoretical Linguistics and Cognition

Master

This is a specialisation within the MA Linguistics.

The specialisation consists of four 10 EC courses or equivalent and the MA thesis (20 EC)

Students take four 10 EC courses (or equivalent), as follows:

Course 1: Any course from Semantics: Negation and Related Matters, Syntax: Current Issues, Phonetics: Second and Foreign Language Acquisition, Phonology: Dealing with Many Types of Evidence Course 2: Any other course from the list below Course 3: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below) or a course on a linguistic subject taught in another MA Course 4: Any course offered within the MA Linguistics (including the list below) or a course on a linguistic subject taught in another MA

Courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
Semantics: Negation and Related Matters 10
Syntax: Current Issues 10
Phonetics: Second and Foreign Language Acquisition 10
Phonology: Dealing with Many Types of Evidence 10
Historical Syntax 10
English Word Formation 10
Registration, Analysis and Synthesis of Speech 5

Second semester
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language 10
Microvariation: Phonology and Syntax 10
Chinese Syntax and Semantics 10
Language Modeling: Exploiting Logical Form 10
Statistics and data processing for linguists 5
Methods in Child Language Research 10
Hot Topics in Italian Syntax in a Comparative Romance Perspective 10
Language Change 10
MA Thesis Linguistics 20