Here are some reasons to apply today to a course at Stockholm University’s Department of Linguistics: You are a humanist and want to learn about the diversity and common features of world’s languages You are a computer expert and want to learn about natural communication among humans You are an engineer and want to learn about speech acoustics and sign language to improve human-machine communication systems that use natural You are developing automatic translation systems and need to have a deeper insight on natural cross-linguistic communication You are a mathematician and want to model natu ..read more

Sounds interesting? Apply to the remaining courses in Linguistics before 15 Aug 2021 Language communication is the hallmark of humans. Language gives humans the capability of sharing thoughts and information with each other using a virtually unlimited combinatorial system of symbols that can be auditive, visual, tactile or a mixture thereof. Languages’ main feature is just that combinatorial use of symbols that in turn can be combined in hierarchical structures, which can themselves be further embedded in yet another hierarchical level. Studying articulatory strategies in speech production In ..read more

If you are looking for a truly interdisciplinary study field Phonetics is probably the challenge you are up to! Although often viewed as the mere use of phonetic symbols to indicate the pronunciation details of speech sounds, Phonetics is much more than just that. Phonetics was once defined in Britannica by the late phonetician Peter Ladefoged as “the study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities” but even this definition falls short of what Phonetics actually deals with. Indeed, Phonetics combines the Natural sciences oriented acoustic and physiological stud ..read more

Feeling phonology: Proprioceptive Constructions in Protactile Sign Language En mycket lärorik session om användningen av proprioception för kommunikation med och bland dövblinda. Learning from protactile deafblind communitiesLearning from protactile deafblind communitiesLearning from protactile deafblind communities Dövblindas kommunikation bygger på information som förmedlas av fyra händer, genom kontakt med mottagarens kropp. Det gäller att etablera ett kommunikationsrymd som utgångspunkt, i vilket föremål, beskrivningar och handlingar sedan placeras. I exemplet längst till höger förklarar e ..read more