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Course: Biolinguistics and Psycholinguistics

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Course title	Biolinguistics and Psycholinguistics
Course code	KBH/92BBP
Organizational form of instruction	Seminary
Level of course	Doctoral
Year of study	not specified
Semester	Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits	5
Language of instruction	Czech, English
Status of course	Compulsory-optional, Optional
Form of instruction	Face-to-face
Work placements	This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components	None

Lecturer(s)
Bednaříková Božena, doc. PhDr. Ph.D. Kosta Peter, prof. DR HAB
Course content
One of the key questions presented by Plato in his Kratylos deals with the origin and the nature of a natural language. Kratylos explains why and in what sense a language (understood as an internal grammar/ internal language model as described by Chomsky) is exclusively a human characteristics constituted as a complex recursive system of rules, principles and parameters that can be quite quickly mastered by anyone, regardless of their intelligence and learning conditions even if it is for instance the case of poverty of stimulus. In connection with the thesis ( Kosta 1992) and some recent studies cf. e.g. Kosta, Krivochen, Peters 2011, Kosta, Krivochen 2012) the course will be dealing with the following topics falling into the newly constituted discipline of biolinguistics cf. Sciullo / Boeckx 2011, cf. also Kosta, Krivochen, review 2012): and the research project focussed on innate language competence: (1) What characteristics does a language phenotype have? What genotype counterparts are there to the language phenotype? (2) How can the ability to speak be imagined with respect to its growth and maturing? (3) What does a cognitive representation and the cognitive map of a language in human brain look like? (4) What is the relation between the ?software? and ?hardware? how does the language competence participate what does it consist of? (5) What developmental and psychological processes result into language origination? (6) How can the anatomy of a language be explored? Which methods are available? ( e.g.: biolinguistics, neurolinguistics, evolutional biology, molecular genetics)
Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
Learning outcomes
The seminar could be hedged by the following question: Has the language and language competence been developed as a result of direct selection a selection pressure of species humana or has the development resulted from developmental psychology of biological evolution? Knowledge of developmental and psychological processes leading to the emergence of language, reading texts in the biolingvistics and neurolinguistics, critical thinking and discussion
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of linguistic terminology, ability to read English Scientific texts
Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Seminar Work Seminar paper on a given topic
Recommended literature
" Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx, Introduction: Contours of the Biolinguistic Research Agenda . IN: The Biolinguistic Enterprise. New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of Human Language Faculty. Edited by Anna Maria di Sciullo & Cedric Boeckx. 1-18. " Robert C. Berwick, Syntax Facit Saltum Redux: Biolinguistics and the Leap to Syntax, a.a.O. 65-99. " Robert G. Berwick and Noam Chomsky, The Biolinguistic Program: The Current State of its Development, a.a.O., 19-41. " W. Tecumseh Fitch. "Deep Homology" in the Biology and Evolution of Language, a.a.O., 135-168.

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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Sociology (12)	Category: Social sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Czech Language (13)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Languages and Culture of China and Japan (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Language (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): German Language (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Cultural Industry Studies (2022)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): German Literature (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Literature (2019)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Romance Languages (2021)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): History of Art, Heritage Conservation and Technology for Material Analysis (20)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Russian Language (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Romance Languages (2021)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Romance literature (2021)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Clinical and Educational Psychology (2020)	Category: Psychology courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Work & Organizational Psychology and Traffic Psychology (2020)	Category: Psychology courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Philosophy (12)	Category: Philosophy, theology	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Media and Cultural Studies (14)	Category: Journalism, library science and informatics	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): German Literature (12)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English and American Literature (12)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Pedagogical Psychology (12)	Category: Psychology courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Literature, Theatre and Film (12)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Andragogy (20)	Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Arts (19)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Religious Studies (20)	Category: Philosophy, theology	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Czech Language (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Asian Studies (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Adult Education (2021)	Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Music (19)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Czech Language (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Historical Sciences (19)	Category: History courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Cultural Anthropology (16)	Category: Philosophy, theology	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Russian Language (12)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Comparative Slavonic Philology (12)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Languages and Culture of China and Japan (15)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Czech Literature (12)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Romance Languages (14)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Romance literature (12)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Arts (12)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Czech History (12)	Category: History courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Andragoghy (20)	Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Arts (19)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Russian Literatura (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): German Language (2021)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television (2019)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Cultural Anthropology (20)	Category: Philosophy, theology	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Work & Organizational Psychology and Traffic Psychology (2020)	Category: Psychology courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Economic and Managerial Studies (16)	Category: Economy	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Arts (12)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English and American Literature (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): English Language (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Sociology (2019)	Category: Social sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Migration Studies (20)	Category: Geography courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Languages and Culture of China and Japan (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Media and Cultural Studies (2021)	Category: Journalism, library science and informatics	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Comparative Slavonic Philology (2019)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Work & Organizational Psychology and Traffic Psychology (2020)	Category: Psychology courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Dutch Philology (16)	Category: Philological sciences	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Media and Cultural Studies (14)	Category: Journalism, library science and informatics	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Pedagogical Psychology (12)	Category: Psychology courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory and History of Music (12)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Theory of Literature (12)	Category: Theory and history of arts	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts	Study plan (Version): Czech History (12)	Category: History courses	-	Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -

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