Curs: Advanced Issues in Cognitive Science and Linguistics – Maria Teresa Guasti

Curs: Advanced Issues in Cognitive Science and Linguistics – Maria Teresa Guasti

Advanced Issues in Cognitive Science and Linguistics

Maria Teresa Guasti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Dates:
20
, 21, 23, 24 i 27 d’abril del 2020
De 9:00 a 11:30

El curs es podrà seguir per webex. Els interessats a seguir-lo poden contactar la coordinadora del curs a: anna.gavarro@uab.cat

 

The topics covered will draw evidence from various acquisition situations such as typical language development, language impairment, multilingual development. The lectures corresponding to points 2 to 4 in the syllabus are based on chapters  5.3, 7, 9, 10, 11 of Guasti (2017) and will expand from them with further readings that will be made available to students.

1. An introduction to the course by M. T. Guasti (A. Gavarró)

2. Acquisition of syntax: Clitics and Passives

3. Acquisition of semantics/Pragmatics: Quantifiers and Implicatures

4. Differentiating multilingualism from language impairment