Delegates in this directed study will be introduced to the structure of human language and its mental/neural basis. We will be looking at what types of computational/formal properties languages have (and don't have) from the perspective of cross-linguistic surveys as well as individual psychology, the development of signed languages, and neuro-linguistic studies. Participants should leave with an understanding of some basic (and non-obvious) properties of human language. They will also have a grasp of where language capacities sit in the brain and how they differ from other human cognitive capacities, as well as how these capacities differ from and are similar to cognitive capacities in other animals. Time permitting, we might also discuss how current linguistic research informs social language issues related to, e.g., bilingualism and ebonics.
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