Neurolingustics and Patholinguistics full time

Degree
Master of Arts
Master
Standard period of study (amount)
4 semesters
Location
Marburg

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Area of study

  • German Studies
  • Communication Studies
  • General Linguistic Science
  • Linguistics

Focus

Neurolinguistics, Psychology of Language, Patholinguistics, Clinical Linguistics, Speech Therapy, Speech Therapy, Language and Speech Impairments, Language Processing, Neurophonetics, Language Cognition

Target group

Students who are interested in linguistics (psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, pathology) and related fields (e.g. neuroscience, psychology)

Annotation

The Master’s degree programme in "Neurolinguistics and Patholinguistics" brings together the related linguistic disciplines of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and clinical linguistics/patholinguistics to conduct comprehensive, high-level research into the cognitive and neural processes underlying normal and impaired language processing as well as typical and atypical language acquisition. Over the four semesters, the focus is on experimental and clinical methods as well as models for speech processing in people with and without speech disorders.
Acquisition of in-depth knowledge in the aforementioned disciplines of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, patholinguistics and adjacent areas (e.g. neurosciences, cognitive sciences, selected other disciplines of linguistics)

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

More information regarding admission requirements

Admission requirements

Proof of completion of a relevant Bachelor’s degree course in Linguistics, German Studies, Language Therapy, Cognitive Sciences, Communication Science or proof of a German or international comparable professionally qualifying
certificate of academic degree. As part of the degree or another degree programme, students must demonstrate Linguistic components worth 18 CP and components in the field of Psycholinguistics, Patholinguistics or Neurolinguistics worth at least 6 CP.

Lecture period

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2026/2027)

Languages of instruction

Main language

German

Further languages

English