Academic Year/course:
2018/19
427 - Degree in Spanish
28045 - Biolinguistics: Language, Mind and Brain
Información del Plan Docente
Academic Year:
2018/19
Subject:
28045 - Biolinguistics: Language, Mind and Brain
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
427 - Degree in Spanish
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
580 - Degree in Spanish: 3
427 - Degree in Spanish: 4
580 - Degree in Spanish: 4
427 - Degree in Spanish: 3
Semester:
Second semester
Subject Type:
Optional
Module:
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4.1. Methodological overview
The methodology followed in this course is oriented towards the achievement of the learning objectives. A wide range of teaching and learning tasks are implemented, such as lectures, practice sessions, autonomous work, study and assessment tasks.
Students are expected to participate actively in class throughout the semester.
Further information regarding the course will be provided on the first day of class.
4.2. Learning tasks
The course includes the following learning tasks:
- Lectures.
- Practice sessions.
- Autonomous work and study.
- Assessment tasks.
4.3. Syllabus
The course will address the following topics:
Theory (Guillermo Lorenzo (2013): Biolingüística. La nueva síntesis. Oviedo, Universidad de Oviedo: Only available as a free pdf (Creative Commons licence) at http://www.unioviedo.es/biolang/la-nueva-sintesis/)
- On the scientific status of biolinguistics
- Human languages as natural objects
- The architecture of the language faculty: the computational system and the lexicon
- The interface with the conceptual-intentional system
- The interface with the sensory-motor system
- Genetic and evolutionary aspects of the language faculty
Theory and practice (Belinchon, M and A. Riviere (2004): Psicología del lenguaje. Investigación y teoría, Barcelona: Trotta (6ºed.) or Boecks, C., Mª C. Horno and J.L. Mendívil (eds.) (2012): Language, from a Biological Point of View, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars).
- Basic foundations of research into psycholinguistics: research methods, design of experiments, data analysis and dissemination of results
- Language acquisition
- Multilingualism: several languages in just one brain
- Comprehension and production in real time: the processing of language
- Language disorders and aphasias