| source Johns Hopkins University (X) |
level Independent Academic Work (20) Lower Level Undergraduate (5) Upper Level Undergraduate (2) |
department Cognitive Science (X) |
Advertising pervades our culture; interactions with advertising are an unavoidable fact of modern life. This class uses tools from linguistics and cognitive science to analyze these interactions, and understand the impact of advertising on its viewers. A central theme is to treat ads as communicative acts, and explore the consequences -- what can theories of communication (from linguistics, psychology, and philosophy) tell us about ads? How do ads use central features of human cognition to accomplish their aims? Do ads manipulate, and if so, how successfully? The theories of communication we explore include Gricean pragmatics, theories of speech acts, linguistic theories of presuppositions, and more. Students will collect, analyze, and discuss advertisements in all mediums.
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Co-listed as 080.203 in Neuroscience This course surveys theory and research concerning how mental processes are carried out by the human brain. Currently a wide range of methods of probing the functioning brain are yielding insights into the nature of the relation between mental and neural events. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of both the physiological bases of the techniques and the issues involved in relating measures of brain activity to cognitive functioning. Methods surveyed include electrophysiological recording techniques such as EEG, VEP, ERP, single/multiple unit recording and MEG; functional imaging techniques such as PET and fMRI; and methods that involve lesioning or disrupting neural activity such as WADA, cortical stimulation, animal lesion studies, and the study of brain-damaged individuals.
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This hands-on course exposes students to the fascinating variety â and uniformity â to be found among the worldâs 6000 languages through group lectures on a variety of topics as well as actual linguistic fieldwork conducted in small groups with a native speaker of a language unknown to the participants. This course is a good preparation for upper-division linguistics courses.
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This hands-on course exposes students to the fascinating variety â and uniformity â to be found among the worldâs 6000 languages through group lectures on a variety of topics as well as actual linguistic fieldwork conducted in small groups with a native speaker of a language unknown to the participants. This course is a good preparation for upper-division linguistics courses.
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This hands-on course exposes students to the fascinating variety â and uniformity â to be found among the worldâs 6000 languages through group lectures on a variety of topics as well as actual linguistic fieldwork conducted in small groups with a native speaker of a language unknown to the participants. This course is a good preparation for upper-division linguistics courses.
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Prereq: 050.320 or permission required. Building on 050.320, this course addresses and compares conceptions of syntactic theory that have emerged in the 1980âs and 1990âs. Discussion focuses on both the substantive and formal properties of the fundamental principles of syntactic theory, as well as the cross-linguistic evidence that has motivated them. When possible, connections will be made to other areas of linguistic inquiry such as processing, acquisition, and computation. The particular choice of topics and conceptions will vary from year to year but may include (1) the contrast between the Principles and Parameters view where syntactic theory is composed of a set of inviolable principles whose form admits a certain amount of cross-linguistic variation, and the Optimality Theory view where the principles are invariant though violable, and cross-linguistic variation is determined by the relative importance of satisfying the various principles; (2) the role of structure building operations in grammar, and the differences between characterizations of well-formedness in terms of sequences of derivational steps and representational well-formedness requirements. Same as 050.621
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Prereq: Previous experience with one other language-related course is desirable but not obligatory. An introduction to the basic principles underlying the mental representation and manipulation of language sounds and their relation to human perception and vocal articulation: how units of sound are both decomposable into elementary features and combined to form larger structures like syllables and words. The role of rules and constraints in a formal theory of phonological competence and in accounting for the range of variation among the worldâs languages. Same as 050.625
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