Linguistics - Specific Competences
- Identify linguistic units, the relations among them and processes affecting them
- Ability to distinguish the different levels of linguistic analysis
- Ability to formulate linguistic generalizations on the basis of language data
- Ability to recognize linguistic problems
- Ability to use linguistic data in the construction of linguistic argumentation
- Understanding the nature of linguistic evidence at difference levels of analysis
- Ability to gather data, construct linguistic corpora, manage, maintain and retrieve information from them
- Ability to select appropriate methodologies for different types of linguistic research
- Awareness of the relationship between theoretical approaches and methodological practice
- Ability to critically reflect on common misconceptions of language
- Ability to reflect on the nature of language as a species-specific property
- Understanding the nature of linguistic theories, hypotheses and explanations
- Ability to describe the core components of any one theoretical model in a given area of analysis
- Ability to apply tools and methods of linguistic analysis to related fields
- Awareness of the relevance of linguistics for adjacent fields
- Ability to examine and reflect on the relationship between language and social context
- Ability to identify different types and sources of linguistic and non-linguistic meaning
- Ability to describe and analyze the linguistic competence across the life span of a speaker
- Ability to describe and analyze psychological aspects of knowledge, production and comprehension of language.
- Ability to describe and apply tools of linguistic analysis to diachronic data
- Ability to identify and analyze different categories of language disorder.
- Awareness of the issues involved in natural language processing and of language industries
- Understanding of the basic techniques for the analysis of linguistic data.