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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”, “Experimental Phonetics”, “Phonology: Discovering Unique Patterns” 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

NB: If you wish to register for any of the MA Linguistics courses, please see the website.

Courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
Experimental Phonetics 10
Semantics: Negation and Related Matters 10
Syntax: Current Issues 10
Phonology: Discovering Unique Patterns 10
Registration, Analysis and Synthesis of Speech 5
Methods in Child Language Research 10

Second semester
Microvariation: Phonology and Syntax 10
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language 10
Topics in Chinese Syntax and Semantics 10
Historical Syntax 10
English Word Formation 10
Cross-linguistic Variation in Semantics 10
Language Modeling: Exploiting Logical Form 10
Statistics and data processing for linguists 5
Hot Topics in Italian Syntax in a Comparative Romance Perspective 10
MA Thesis Linguistics 20