Linguistics and Cognitive Science - LING5030
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LING5030 Linguistics and Cognitive Science is concerned with age-old topics that have become crucial in contemporary approaches towards language, cognition and philosophy of science. The course examines ideas about the innateness of human language, the structure of the cognitive faculty, and the relationship between language, thought and meaning. Other topics include language evolution and the comparisons of language with other cognitive systems, like vision and navigation.
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