Seminar: Cognitive and Neurophysiological Aspects of Language Acquisition - Details

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General information

Course number	8.3061
Semester	SS 2019
Current number of participants	79
Home institute	LE Cognitive Science
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Tue , 02.04.2019 14:00 - 16:00, Room: 93/E31
Participants	ab 4. Semester
SWS	2
Sprache	Englisch
Contact Hours	2
ECTS points	4

Lecturers

• Juniorprof. Dr. rer. nat. Jutta L. Mueller
• Samuel Harris Cosper, M.A.

Course location / Course dates

93/E31

Tuesday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (from 02/04/19) (14x)

Fields of study

• Veranstaltungen > Cognitive Science > Master-Programm
• Veranstaltungen > Cognitive Science > Bachelor-Programm

Module assignments

• Master of Science Cognitive Science > KOGW-MWPM-CL - Schwerpunktbereich Computerlinguistik (Wahlpflichtmodul)
• Master of Science Cognitive Science > KOGW-MWPM-KNP - Schwerpunktbereich Kognitive (Neuro-)Psychologie (Wahlpflichtmodul)
• Bachelor of Science Cognitive Science > KOGW-WPM-CL - Computerlinguistik (Wahlpflichtmodul)
• Master of Science Informatik > KOGW-WPM-KNP - Kognitive (Neuro-)Psychologie (Wahlpflichtmodul)
• Bachelor of Science Cognitive Science > KOGW-WPM-KNP - Kognitive (Neuro-)Psychologie (Wahlpflichtmodul)
• Bachelor of Science Informatik > KOGW-WPM-KNP - Kognitive (Neuro-)Psychologie (Wahlpflichtmodul)

Comment/Description

Prerequisites: KOGW-PM-KNP & KOGW-PM-CL

The seminar will deal with methods, theories and experimental findings concerning the human ability of language acquisition. First, this includes native language acquisition in infants, specifically how infants learn the sounds, words and syntactic structure from birth onwards. Second, we will discuss the specifities of second language acquisition, how it differs from first language acquisition and how it might be neurally implemented. The third topic will be language learning abilities in non-human animals with a specific focus on the question if there is a valid "animal model" for human language learning. After an introduction to methodological approaches to language learning from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience we will read and discuss important papers from the recent language learning literature.