Current Trends in Linguistics
type of class: Pro-/Hauptseminar
time: Thursday 8.30-10.00
room: Brechtbau, HS 036
Syllabus (preliminary; subject to change)
| day | topic |
guest speaker/homework |
|---|---|---|
| 20.10. |
Overview |
|
| 27.10. |
Languages of the world |
Homework 1 |
| 3.11. |
Languages of the world (cont.) |
Homework 2 |
| 10.11. |
Computational historical linguistics | Homework 3 |
| 17.11. |
Language evolution |
Roland Mühlenbernd |
| 24.11. |
Predicting lexical decision in humans and baboons: deep learning or wide learning? |
Harald Baayen |
| 1.12. |
How do grammatical words change their meanings? |
Igor Yanovich |
| 8.12. |
Probabilistic pragmatics |
Michael Franke, Michele Herbstritt and
Anthea Schöller |
| 15.12. |
The semantics of color terms. A quantitative
cross-linguistic investigation |
|
| 22.12. |
Neurolinguistics |
Ingo Hertrich |
| 12.1. |
On the Automatic Analysis of Learner
Language: Modeling between surface features and linguistic abstraction |
Detmar Meurers |
| 19.1. |
Inferring the homeland of language families |
Igor Yanovich |
| 26.1. |
Typologie/language comparison | Christian Bentz |
| 2.2. |
Using the realtime comprehension of events as a window into the composition of meaning |
Oliver Bott |
| 9.2. |
Written test Introduction
to Linguistics |
Credits
In the weeks withough guest speaker, there will be homework exercises. Also, part of the questions of the written test will address topics from this lecture. The results will be evaluated as pass/fail, i.e., there will be no grades.- Students taking the course as part of the module Linguistic Fundamentals of the Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft or ISCL curriculum should upload their homeworks to Ilias here.
- Students who want to get a Proseminar-Schein should upload their homeworks to Ilias here.