Leerdoelen
At the end of this course you should be able:
- to have an overview of state-of-the-art cognitive models of language processing and acquisition, ranging from constructionist, connectionist to data-oriented parsing models,
- to critically discuss and analyze cognitive models of language from the literature,
- to understand the interrelations between cognitive models of language and cognitive models of some other modalities, in particular music,
- to come up with possible improvements or extensions to existing models.
Inhoud
This course will give an up-to-date overview of cognitive models of language processing and acquisition. We will discuss each model by focusing on the following three questions:
- What are the productive units of language proposed by each model?
- How are these units combined to comprehend and produce new sentences?
- How are these units acquired?
We will investigate differences and commonalities between the various models, and discuss what they have to say about the nativism-empiricism debate. The frameworks that will be covered are:
- Construction grammar
- Cognitive linguistics
- Connectionist linguistics
- Item-based language acquisition
- Usage-based linguistics
- Data-oriented/Exemplar-based linguistics
We will also deal with some applications of these frameworks for modeling other cognitive modalities, in particular music. We will point out the most striking commonalities between language and music, especially with respect to phrase perception, and discuss what cognitive models can tell us about underlying processing mechanisms for different modalities.
Aanmelden
You must register through SIS at the latest at January 8 2012. Students from masters other than Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Logic need to submit a secondary subject applicationform. More information and the form can be found at:
http://www.csca.nl.
Onderwijsvorm
Lectures and seminars.
Onderwijstijden
See http://rooster.uva.nl
Studiemateriaal
Reader
Aantal deelnemers
8 - 20
Toetsvorm
Assignments (50%), presentation of a research article and writing of final paper (50%)
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