M.Sc. in Cognitive Science of Language

The discipline combines expertise in psycholinguistics, core linguistics, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and corpus linguistics to investigate the connection between language structure, language processing and the neural basis of language. Based in the department of Linguistics and Languages, the MSc program in the Cognitive Science of Language is interdisciplinary and includes faculty from Humanities, Science, and Health Sciences. The program has a strong research orientation with expertise in cognitive science, corpus linguistics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics. The program introduces students to the issues in those fields that form the nexus of, linguistics, cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience, and trains them in the research methods employed to study them. These skills are brought together in a thesis.Areas of Researchcognitive psychology of languagecorpus linguisticsneurolinguisticsphoneticspsycholinguisticssociolinguisticstheoretical linguistics

Student must have: Honours Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent; Bplus (B- for Engineering) minimum average, based on a full year equivalent of final year courses (3rd/4th level) relevant to the program.Language RequirementsApplicants are required to submit evidence of their proficiency in the English language as part of their application.