The course will address central topics in the broad area of language and cognition with a focus on new approaches to the study of how humans couch and express their thoughts by means of language, but also other modalities, how cognition supports language comprehension and use and language development, correlations between general intelligence and language, typical and atypical language development.

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Courses:

Ewa Dabrowska (Northumbria University, UK):

BIG WORDS AND LITTLE RULES: EXPLORING GRAMMAR IN THE MIND Course Description (pdf).Readings for Big Words, Little Rules (pdf).Slides Lecture 1 (pdf).Slides Lecture 2 (pdf).Slides Lecture 3 (pdf).Slides Lecture 4 (pdf).

Kenny Coventry (Northumbria University, UK):

SPATIAL LANGUAGE AND PERCEPTION Course Description (pdf).

Barbara Malt (Lehigh University, USA):

WORDS AND CONCEPTS Course Description (pdf).Readings for Words and Concepts (pdf).Slides from 1st Lecture (pdf).Slides from 2nd Lecture (pdf).

Robin Cooper and Staffan Larsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden):

SEMANTIC COORDINATION IN DIALOGUE Course Description (pdf).Readings for Semantic Coordination in Dialogue (pdf).Slides (pdf).

Credits: PhD students attending the course will earn 5 credits. Students who aim at earning additional credits should contact their home institutions. The course is open to all PhD students affiliated with NordLing participating institutions and Universities.

Course Director: Professor Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, PhD Programme in Linguistics, NTNU, Director and co-ordinator for the Norwegian Research School in Linguistics

Co-organised by: Göteborgs Universitet, Åsa Abelin, Dept. of Linguistics

Accompanying event:

Biology and Learning International Conference

September 10th, 2010 - hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Social Science, NTNU

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