Ph.D. programme in Foreign Literatures, Languages and Linguistics

This integrated PhD course intends to provide participants with updated knowledge of new research strategies concerning how language is acquired, implicit learning and Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL).
At the end of the course, participants will be endowed with some specific knowledge about:
a) new trends in language acquisition research
b) the role of AGL in assessing learning strategies in language acquisition, also with reference to special populations (dyslexic children) and bilinguals
c) the role of non-canonical grammars (Lindenmayer systems: ‘L-systems’) in assessing the interaction between sequential and hierarchical learning
d) the experimental methods and the forms of statistical analysis that can be applied in order to study the interaction between sequential and hierarchical parsing in children and adults

Program

The course will consist in 16 hours of frontal teaching plus self-study by the participants.
In all its parts it will be the result of a strict cooperation among the 4 lecturers involved (Denis Delfitto, Diego Krivochen, Chiara Melloni, Maria Vender).
It will be organized in the following 4 parts:
Part 1: An introduction to the formal structure of grammars, L-systems and to some models of analysis of L-systems, including training and exercises in the formal theory of language (Lecturer: Diego Krivochen, 8 hours)
Part 2: A case-study in sequential and hierarchical learning across different populations: L-systems and Fibonacci grammar (Lecturers: Maria Vender, Chiara Melloni, Denis Delfitto, 8 hours)
Part 2 will be taught in 3 blocks:
Block 1: Strategies of language acquisition and methods of research in language acquisition (Lecturer: Chiara Melloni)
Block 2: Sequential and hierarchical learning across different populations: 4 experimental studies investigating implicit learning in some variants of Fibonacci grammar (Lecturer: Maria Vender)
Block 3: Statistically-based computation and strategies of hierarchical reconstruction (Lecturer: Denis Delfitto)

References: Reading instructions and proposals before the course and during the course

Examination Methods

Participants will be asked to read in advance some relevant literature.
During the course, some training and exercises will be proposed.
Interested participants can write a paper on some of the research issues addressed in the course.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

PhDs

Training and Research

PhD Programme Courses/classes

Academic Presentation Skills (advanced)

Academic Writing (advanced)

Academic writing in latex and academic presentation

Advanced English for Academic Skills

Agenda dell’organizzazione delle nazioni unite 2030 sullo sviluppo sostenibile, ricerca e diritto antidiscriminatorio: strumenti ed esperienze nelle università

Grammatiche artificiali e apprendimento implicito

Artificial Grammar Learning 2

Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity e diritto

Collecting Linguistic data

Collecting linguistic data, Part 1.2

Collecting linguistic data, Part 2.1

Raccolta dati linguistici

Comparative Syntax 1

Comparative Syntax 2

Comunicare la scienza: il ruolo dei ricercatori e il rapporto tra esperti, cittadini e istituzioni

Connessioni con altre sfere del sapere, come la filosofia o la storia dell'arte, e con altre forme di espressione artistica, come la musica e le arti figurative 1

Connessioni con altre sfere del sapere, come la filosofia o la storia dell'arte, e con altre forme di espressione artistica, come la musica e le arti figurative 2

Connessioni con altre sfere del sapere, come la filosofia o la storia dell'arte, e con altre forme di espressione artistica, come la musica e le arti figurative 3

Alfredo Caesella and the Russia/Soviet Musical Context (early 19th Century)

Contatti italo-slavi - Le letterature slave in Italia nel primo Novecento: il caso delle riviste fiumane

Contatti italo-slavi tra fine Ottocento e primo Novecento: il ruolo delle riviste, i viaggi e gli scambi epistolari - La scoperta delle culture slave nelle riviste italiane del secondo '800

Corso di inglese B1/certificazione B1

Corso di inglese B2/certificazione B2

Corso di inglese C1/certificazione C1

Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri

Corso di programmazione con matlab

Medical statistics with R

Basic statistics course

Intermediate statistics course

(Meta-analysis using the statistical software Stata and R

Corso teorico-pratico di microscopia di base

On the notion of intertextuality and on literary intertextuality, with examples from English literature.

Dinamiche dell'intertestualità letteraria. Esemplificazioni dalla letteratura inglese e anglofona 2

Diritto d'autore e brevetti

Dissemination dei risultati della ricerca

English for academic presentations

English for academic writing

Gender issues in Shakespeare's female characters

Fonetica

Shakespeare Source and Reception Studies and the Digital Turn.

Phraseology and Lexicography 1

Fraseologia e lessicografia 2

Fraseologia e lessicografia/terminologia 2

Identities through English 1

Identities through English 2

Identities through English 4: Multimodality, identity, and affiliation

Intertextes - “Con voce altrui”: l’intertesto francese nell’opera di Primo Levi

Intertextuality and description: around Salomé

Intertextes - Queneau and the influences of textuality

Introduzione al “public speaking”

Medieval literature between philology and DH

La mia archeologia e la mia politica culturale

Python programming language

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for analyzing written textual resources + Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for the humanities

Presentation of Horizon Europe framework programme

Project writing for beginners

Seminario Consigliera di fiducia

Civilitas e taciturnitas

Spin off e start-up innovative

Renaissance theatre and novel (theory, narratology, with examples in the Spanish novel and theatre)

L'Informatica Umanistica come ambito sceintifico: un'introduzione + Standard per la rappresentazione testuale nelle scienze umanistiche

Translation 1

Translation (2) Intralingual translation

Protecting psychological well-being in the PhD program: development and enhancement of personal strategies and attitudes that predispose to professional satisfaction and ethical collaboration.

Working with textual files: encodings and regular expressions

Artificial Grammar Learning 2 (2020/2021)

Learning outcomes

Program

Examination Methods

Univr risponde - Assistente Virtuale

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