UNSW Handbook Course - Language and Mind

Language and Mind - LING5012


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: Linguistics
	Course Outline: http://legacy.handbook.unsw.edu.au
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Excluded: ENGL2552
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

An introduction to issues in current linguistic theory, with particular attention to generative models, their historical development, methodology and philosophical and psychological implications.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

Describe the philosophical and psychological foundations of the generative and biolinguistic approach to the study of language as developed by Noam Chomsky and others
Explain some of the formal mechanisms of the generative enterprise with particular attention to the recent model of the Principles and Parameters framework
Demonstrate how the formal study of the language faculty illuminates the nature of human cognition.

Assessment

Test - 20%
Class presentation - 10%
Problem sets - 30%
Essay (4000 words) - 40%

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