Language and Cognition (2022)

Why choose us?

The program is research-focused, reflecting the specializationsof the linguists on staff at the University of Groningen Ourlecturers are internationally recognised experts in their fields AResearch Training module offers you the opportunity for hands-onresearch experience in your first year of study A researchinternship (25 ECTS) in the second year can be used to work withexperts in your area of specialization

Boston Children's Hospital, USA: Data collection with MRI forresearch on language disorders

TEXTGAIN BV: working on the EU Project PANORAMA Developing hatespeech monitoring technology for Greek and Albanian

Bilingualism and Aging Lab at the University of Groningen. TheNetherlands: research on language learning in the third age,working with behavioral and neuroimaging data

Reading's Institute of Education, UK: collecting, processing andanalyzing eye-tracking data

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria: Dynamic Analysisof Language Learning in the Third Age project

University of Leeds, Leeds Child Development Center: children'sonline adjective processing, processing in referentialcommunication

University of Stellenbosch, Taalsentrum, South Africa:readability measurement of texts written in Afrikaans andIsiXhosa

University of Stockholm, Linguistics Department, Sweden:typology, evolution, and extended uses of temperature in language,data collection and analysis of Germanic languages

University of Bristol, UK, OPEN project: conversation analyticresearch on out-of-hours primary medical care

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During the Research Master's programme in Linguistics you willacquire a wide-ranging set of skills useful in a wide range ofdomains. These include:

• Analytical skills
• Presentation skills
• Writing skills
• Methodological skills
• Statistical skills
• Corpus analysis
• Experimental design
• Working in a team

Research institute CLCG

The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) is aresearch institute within the Faculty of Arts of the University ofGroningen. It is the institutional home for all the linguisticresearch carried out within the faculty, and students have theopportunity to work with members of this center who specialize intheir area of interest. Please see https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/ to view theprofiles of individual researchers. Within the CLCG there are fourdifferent research groups:

Computational Linguistics

Discourse and Communication

Neurolinguistics and Language Development

Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics

Publishing your own work

Students are encouraged to present their work at conferences andsubmit it for publication, often co-authoring with instructors whoguide them through the process of research, compiling and reportingresults, and academic writing. Having published during your studiesis a big plus when applying for a PhD position. Every year at leastfour students of the Research Master publish their worksomewhere.

LOT Research School

LOT is an acronym of Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap(National Graduate School of Linguistics). The research by the LOTinstitutes covers all major areas of linguistics as well as a widerange of methodological tools and theoretical frameworks. LOTorganises the national graduate courses and offers a Winter Schoolin January and a Summer School in June/July on various locationsthroughout the Netherlands and Belgium. As a Language and Cognitionstudent you will attend at least two Summer or Winter schools (thecost of which is paid for by the university) and completeassignments about the courses in order to obtain 10 ECTS.

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EMLAR/conferences

For students interested in language acquisition, it is possibleto get LOT credits for attending the EMLAR (Experimental Methods inLanguage Acquisition Research) conference.

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Other conferences

Language and Cognition students are encouraged to attendnational and international conferences. The TABU DAG is aninternational linguistics conference organized at the University ofGroningen and provides one opportunity for students to hearpresentations or give their own!

Student/research-assistent

The university offers student assistant positions to a limitednumber of students. This paid position can have a duration up to awhole year and is usually for one day per week. The activities canbe very diverse: teaching and educational support or assisting in astudy or other projects. A researcher will usually ask you forthese positions.