Current Approaches in Linguistics - ABO700730

• Title: Current Approaches in Linguistics
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication (21-UCJTK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 12 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.; Kateřina Chládková, M.A., Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Kateřina Chládková, M.A., Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Jan Chromý, Ph.D.; doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : ALINP208M
• Interchangeability : ABO700701, ALINP208M
• Is incompatible with: ALINP208M
• Is interchangeable with: ALINP208M, ABO700701

Annotation

The main aim of the course is to acquaint students with the current trends in research on language and its use, while simultaneously training them in presentation skills. The first part of the course will focus on how to create effective presentations, including both slides and posters. The second part will then focus on review papers that summarize the development and current state of various subfields or domains.

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.08.2024)

Literature

Bernstein Ratner, N., & Brundage, S. B. (2024). Advances in Understanding Stuttering as a Disorder of Language Encoding. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10(1), 127-143.

Brook, M. (2024). Obsolescence and abortive innovations in variationist approaches to language change. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18(4), e12516.

D'Mello, S. K., & Mills, C. S. (2021). Mind wandering during reading: An interdisciplinary and integrative review of psychological, computing, and intervention research and theory. Language and Linguistics Compass, 15(4), e12412.

Dingemanse, M., & Enfield, N. J. (2024). Interactive repair and the foundations of language. Trends in cognitive sciences, S1364-6613.

Fernyhough, C., & Borghi, A. M. (2023). Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(12), 1180-1193.

Font-Santiago, C., Johnson, M., & Salmons, J. (2022). Reallocation: How new forms arise from contact. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16(8), e12470.

Fuchs, S., & Rochet-Capellan, A. (2021). The Respiratory Foundations of Spoken Language. Annual Review of Linguistics, 7(1), 13-30.

Gibson, E., Futrell, R., Piantadosi, S. P., Dautriche, I., Mahowald, K., Bergen, L., & Levy, R. (2019). How efficiency shapes human language. Trends in cognitive sciences, 23(5), 389-407.

Goldberg, A. E., & Ferreira, F. (2022). Good-enough language production. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(4), 300-311.

Hejná, M., & Jespersen, A. (2022). Ageing well: Social but also biological reasons for age-grading. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16(5-6), e12450.

Hopp, H. (2022). Second language sentence processing. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8, 235-256.

Huang, K. J., & Staub, A. (2021). Why do readers fail to notice word transpositions, omissions, and repetitions? A review of recent evidence and theory. Language and Linguistics Compass, 15(7), e12434.

Huettig, F., & Pickering, M. J. (2019). Literacy advantages beyond reading: Prediction of spoken language. Trends in cognitive sciences, 23(6), 464-475.

Liao, S., Yu, L., Kruger, J. L., & Reichle, E. D. (2024). Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(1), 43-55.

Lupyan, G., Rahman, R. A., Boroditsky, L., & Clark, A. (2020). Effects of language on visual perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 24(11), 930-944.

Ryskin, R., & Nieuwland, M. S. (2023). Prediction during language comprehension: What is next?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(11), 1032-1052.

Wulff, D. U., De Deyne, S., Jones, M. N., & Mata, R. (2019). New perspectives on the aging lexicon. Trends in cognitive sciences, 23(8), 686-698.

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.08.2024)

Requirements to the exam

1. Active participation in the course is required.

2. Each student must present one selected paper using a presentation tool (e.g., PowerPoint, Canva) and present another paper using an academic poster.

3. Each student is required to read each study and answer a few questions as a comprehension check.

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.08.2024)

Syllabus

Week 1

Introduction

Week 2

How to do a good presentation

Week 3

How to do a good poster

Weeks 4–6

FREE, time to work on the presentations

Weeks 7–10

Presentations of selected studies with discussion 

Weeks 11–12

FREE, time to work on posters

Week 13

Poster presentations

Last update: Chromý Jan, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.08.2024)