Maria M. Piņango - Teaching
Fall 2007
117a/517a/PSYC 137a Psycholinguistics
Knowledge of language as a component of the mind: mental grammars, nature
and subdivisions of linguistic knowledge in connection to the brain. The UG hypothesis.
Connection between language acquisition and general cognitive abilities.
231/631a: Neurolinguistics
The study of language as a cognitive neuroscience. The interaction between linguistic theory
and neurological evidence from brain damage, degenerative diseases (e.g., alzheimers disease),
mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia), neuroimaging and neurophysiology. The connection of
language as a neurocognitive system to other systems such as memory and music.
Spring 2008
180/580b: Morphology
The theory of word structure within a formal grammar. Relation to other areas
of grammar (syntax, phonology); basic units of word structure; types of
morphology (inflection, derivation, compounding).
231/631b: Neurolinguistics
