The course will consist of short audio-commented presentations (approximately between 5-10 minutes long), tests, obligatory and voluntary readings, complementary materials and exercises.

Everything is accessible through Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=10122 (password "intapproaches").

The topics for this semmester are:

Biological foundations of language
Language acquisition
Language of adult speakers
Language disorders
Mental lexicon and its organization
Language production
Language processing
Cognitive linguistics (Meaning and categorization, Metaphor. Metonymy. Blendig. Image Schema)
Cognitive grammar
Language and culture
Bilingualism and L2 acquisition