The course aims to provide the basic concepts of the study of language in the field of cognitive sciences. Specifically, the different theoretical hypotheses that have focused on the innate or learned nature of language will be analyzed.


At the end of the course the student:

- will acquire the basic concepts of the theoretical models of language proposed in the field of cognitive sciences.
- Will be able to distinguish the theses advanced by the authors from the arguments used to support such theses, and will be able to provide a correct reconstruction of these arguments