MA in Language and Mind: Linguistics and Cognitive Studies

Curriculum Linguistics and Cognition

Year 1

• Syntactic structures and compositional semantics
• Module A: Syntactic structures;
• Module B: compositional semantics
  • Module A: Syntactic structures;
  • Module B: compositional semantics
• Logic and theory of meaning
• Module A: Theory of meaning;
• Mod. B: Logic
  • Module A: Theory of meaning;
  • Mod. B: Logic
• Philosophy of mind
• Module A: Philosophy of mind;
• Module B: Epistemoplogy
  • Module A: Philosophy of mind;
  • Module B: Epistemoplogy
• Language acquisition
• Corpus approaches to discourse analysis
• Phonetics and phonology
• Linguistic analyses and multilingualism or Methodology of research in cognitive and social psychology

Year 2

• Morphosyntax and experimental studies on language or
  Corpora, language, and translation or
  Advanced issues in Phonology and Syntax or
  Theory of grammar or
  Issues in intensional semantics
• Psycholinguistics or
  Methodology of research in cognitive and social psychology
• Theory of grammar or
  Corpora, language, and translation or
  Advanced issues in Phonology and Syntax or
  Morphosyntax and experimental studies on language or
  Issues in intensional semantics
• Computational linguistics
• Chosen by the student activities
• Suitability second language level C1 o C2
• Job training and guidance
• Final test

Curriculum Philosophy and Cognition

Year 1

• Syntactic structures and compositional semantics
• Module A: Syntactic structures;
• Module B: compositional semantics
  • Module A: Syntactic structures;
  • Module B: compositional semantics
• Logic and theory of meaning
• Module A: Theory of meaning;
• Mod. B: Logic
  • Module A: Theory of meaning;
  • Mod. B: Logic
• Philosophy of mind
• Module A: Philosophy of mind;
• Module B: Epistemoplogy
  • Module A: Philosophy of mind;
  • Module B: Epistemoplogy
• Language acquisition
• Corpus approaches to discourse analysis
• Phonetics and phonology
• Philosophy of psychology or
  Methodology of research in cognitive and social psychology

Year 2

• Advanced topics in the philosophy of mind
• Logic of Natural languages
• Logic and cognition or
  Formal systems
• Issues in intentional semantics
• Chosen by the student activities
• Suitability second language level C1 o C2
• Job training and guidance
• Final test

The Master's program in Language and Mind. Linguistics and Cognitive Studies prepares students to undertake advanced doctoral studies and provides them with specialized knowledge of the research issues in the fields of linguistics and philosophy. The program is centered on advanced theoretical and experimental research on language and cognition.

Students will become able to address a specialized scientific bibliography, mostly in English, and to be in contact with qualified publications and scientific journals, both on paper and online. The acquired capacity to apply theories and methods of linguistic research to the description and analysis of particular languages in a comparative perspective prepares the students to operate in the domain of advanced fundamental and applied research on human language.

In addition to the continuation of the studies in the framework of a graduate school, the job opportunities offered by the MA program can be identified in positions in which language and cognition are central and require an in-depth knowledge of theoretical models, of models of linguistic analysis, of experimental methodologies, of aspects of the interdisciplinary study of language as a cognitive capacity. The potential sectors of activities for the students who obtain the degree in Language and Mind. Linguistics and Cognitive Studies include the didactics of languages, the study of the pathologies of language and of possible rehabilitation techniques, and the domain of computational applications to language-related activities.

In addition to in-presence teaching, which continues to be the preferred method also in the next Academic Year, every single lesson will be simultaneously live-streamed and/or video recorded and uploaded on our digital platform for subsequent viewing. This mode is essential for students who are temporarily unable to be on premises.