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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Linguistics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Maayan Keshev
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Maayan Keshev
Course/Module description:
The goal of this class is to teach students how to think about syntactic questions like an experimentalist. The course will be a combination of discussions of syntactic phenomena, research methods, and hands-on experience.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The students will acquire the basic tools for understanding experimental research papers and for deploying acceptability judgment experiments themselves. They will also learn about advancements in the research of island phenomena.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
We will introduce some core concepts and phenomena in experimental syntax. We will focus on design of acceptability judgment experiments and on constraints on movement, yet methodologies and topics in linguistics and psycholinguistics will also be discussed.
Required Reading:
Sprouse, Jon. 2015.Three open questions in experimental syntax. Linguistics Vanguard 1: 89-100
Goodall, G. (Ed.). (2021). The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax. Cambridge University Press.
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 60 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 10 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 30 %
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