Systematic Reviewing

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (UU)

More and more researchers rely upon Systematic Reviews: attempts to synthesize the state of the art in a particular scientific field. However, the scientific output of the world doubles every nine years. In this tsunami of new knowledge, there is not enough time to read everything – resulting in costly, abandoned, or errorprone work. Using the latest methods from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), you can reduce the number of papers to screen up to 95%(!). This summer school course introduces you to the open-source software ASReview to help you speed up your systematic review.

•••••••••••••• course director Prof. dr. Rens van de Schoot & Laura Hofstee level Master period 28 August 2023 - 1 September 2023 credits 1.5 ECTS course fee € 620

Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

Faculty of Humanities (UU)

In this course we will investigate sound in language from five different perspectives: alphabet (units), acoustics, articulation, prosody and learning. These complementary perspectives together show how language uses a relatively narrow range of sounds (although this range is broader than you might think!) but does so in a very intricate way. In addition, languages’ sound systems are intimately linked to other aspects of the linguistic system: meaning, sentence structure, the lexicon, and word structure, which are also studied within the Research Master’s in Linguistics programme. We will explore these intricacies and connections from the standpoint of (formal) linguistics.

course director Kirsten Schutter level Advanced Bachelor period 14 August 2023 - 18 August 2023 credits 0 ECTS course fee € 200 housing fee € 200

Bilingualism

Faculty of Humanities (UU)

Ask someone their opinion on bilingualism and you are likely to hear statements such as: ‘learning two languages from birth confuses children and impairs their cognitive development’, ‘Bilingual children can’t speak either of their two languages properly’ or ‘You can only become bilingual if you start acquiring your second language as a young child.’ Though common currency among the general public, each of these statements is in fact a myth. In this course, you will discover why this is the case as we review some of the most important findings from the research on bilingual children.

•••••••••••••• course director Kirsten Schutter level period

Advanced Bachelor

14 August 2023 - 18 August 2023 credits 0 ECTS course fee € 200 housing fee € 200