OJ575 Experimental semantics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Blanka Gross Čapková
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 C11
Prerequisites
Formal semantics I or at least basic understanding of propositional logic.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
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Course objectives
The goal of the seminar is to teach students how to design their own experiment. Such experiment would be subsequently tested by them on the material of natural language. In order to get there, students will acquire knowledge of some model experiments in current semantics, they will learn basics of statistics and methods for gathering the empirical data. The learned information can be used by the students e.g. when writing their Ba/Ma thesis. The seminar has practical goal -- to acquire a skill, namely to test some hypotheses by statistically controlled experiment.
Syllabus
  • Basics of experimental semantics
  • Introduction to statistics
  • Statistical program R and programming language S 
  • Case study: presuppositions of quantifiers in Czech
  • Case study: neg-raising in Czech
  • Design of own experiment
  • Statistical analysis of own experiment
Literature
  • R.H. Baayen: Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics using R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
final group project
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017.
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