Course: Biolinguistics

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Course title Biolinguistics
Course code KOL/VBIOL
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bennett Ľudmila, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Kosta Peter, prof. DR HAB
Course content
Moving the focus of investigation of linguistics to the complex system of mental and cognitive faculty that includes the study of branches of sciencies, trying to bring the framework by which we can understand the basics of the language faculty in the narrow sense of the word (FLN). One of the central questions of Platos Kratylos is the question of the nature and origin of natural language , about how and why the language exists only in the form (in terms of internal grammar (translation concept ? I -grammar Chomsky ) , or language modules (as defined by Chomsky's generative grammar ) in species humana , and not in any other semiotic system (eg languages of mammals, songbirds, apes, etc. ). Linguistic ability or FLN in the strict sense, has to be understood as a set ? of semiotic entities, primarily phonological, morphological and syntactic rules of the sensorimotor ? (SM ) interface on the one hand, and the conceptual- intentional ? ( CI) or logical-semantic components on the other. Biolinguistics explores those domains of language that are not only specific to natural language, but also for languages such ? grammars of infinite states ( infinite state models) in contrast to context-sensitive grammars of ? final states (which shows e.g. the mathematical model of Markov). Leaving aside evidence of rudimental (basic) forms of understanding as the language of deaf ? , ? gestures , facial expressions ? , ? panopticon and various other ways ? of communication that exist outside of human communication , the class will aim at one of the most basic but also the most problematic elements of the natural language of humans, namely ? recursion . Recursion is a principle of mathematics, which is applied to one and the same rule type A ? B (A ), the insertion generates a potentially unlimited number of structures. One of the other basic elements of natural language is the ability to serve the sometimes very complex forms of understanding that transcend the possibility that the language was taught simply by imitation ( imitating) of the mother tongue language structures. We know that an infant is able to obtain, produce and comprehend grammar as a recursive system of rules and principles at an early age between 0, 0 , 0, 2,4,0 ? and he/she sets parameters in a relatively short time , regardless of intelligence ( here we abstract from ? linguistic defects and disruption caused by delays in mental and other disabilities of cognitive nature ) separately (ie independently of the correction mother ) , and under very adverse conditions ( eg, poverty of stimulus / negative evidence, ie, the poverty of the stimulus is the absence of non-grammatical structures in the input) , trying to explain such a grammatical model , which is not only based upon the adequacy of observation , but also the adequacy of explaining the acquisition of language skills . If observational adequacy is the foundation of all scientific linguistic research , in which the theory reaches the degree of adequacy as possible exhaustive list of facts, the language data based on observations being classified, the explanatory adequacy of theories of language seeks a formal description and classification rules of grammar ( Gx. . Gn ) . Such a description of the grammar of a native speaker must therefore take into account the correct enumeration data, which are based primarily on linguistic intuition of native speakers. It is not only to describe the specific utterances or corpus data , but the innate system of rules and its generalization , which is part of the generalization rules of other biological systems, such as DNA etc. theories that are not able to reach the third level of adequacy are said to take " into account only observations "rather than" to explain the observations .

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
Learning outcomes
BIOLINGUISTICS IS A STUDY Of THE BIOLOGY of language development. This is a highly interdisciplinary field that cooperate INCLUDING THE ? linguists, biologists, neurologists , psychologists , mathematicians, computer linguistis, other disciplines.
Students will obtain basic knowledge of biolinguistics field.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

participation at the tutorials, contribution to linguistic encyklopediae
Recommended literature
  • Chomsky, Noam. (2012). The Science of Language : Interviews with James McGilvray. Cambridge University Press.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics and Theory of Communication (2014) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -