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Linguistics and Cognitive Science
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Associate Professor Michael Diercks2 (fall 2017), Associate Professor Mary Paster (spring 2018) department chair, Linguistics coordinator
Professor Debby Burke1 (fall 2017), Associate Professor Mary Paster (spring 2018), Cognitive Science coordinator
Professor Burke
Associate Professors Diercks2, Paster
Assistant Professor Holliday
Assistant Professor Melnick
Visiting Assistant Professors Johnson, Landman
Karen Nightingale, academic coordinator
The curriculum of the Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and mind. The department offers two majors: one in linguistics and one in cognitive science.
Linguistics as a discipline focuses on the scientific study of human language including its theoretical, descriptive, social and behavioral bases. It also serves as a privileged window into human cognition. Our evolving understanding of language has had, and continues to have, a profound influence on fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, literature, music and computer science.
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mind that includes consciousness, language, action, meaning, knowledge, decision making, thinking, perceiving, remembering, emotion, and other mental phenomena. Central issues in the discipline include the organization, use, and internal representation of language; the interpretation of sensory experience; the development of reasoning skills; the nature of consciousness; the structure of memory; and the neural basis of cognition. These issues are investigated using the tools of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics.
The Linguistics and Cognitive Science curricula are cooperative intercollegiate programs of the Claremont Colleges; linguistics and cognitive science classes taught at the other Claremont Colleges count as Pomona courses in the completion of the major.
| 1On leave fall 2017 |
2On leave spring 2018 |
3On leave 2017-18 |
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