Neurolingustics and Patholinguistics University of Marburg
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- 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 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
- Winter semester 2026/2027: 12.10.2026 - 12.02.2027The semester dates can be found at: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/studium/im-studium/semestertermine
- Summer semester 2027: 12.04.2027 - 16.07.2027 (Universitywide lecture period)
Application deadlines
Winter semester (2026/2027)
Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants
Application deadlines: https://www.uni-marburg.de/bewerbungsfristenDeadlines for International Students from the European Union
Application deadlines: https://www.uni-marburg.de/bewerbungsfristenDeadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union
Application deadlines: https://www.uni-marburg.de/bewerbungsfristenEnrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students
Application deadlines: https://www.uni-marburg.de/bewerbungsfristen
Tuition fees
Tuition fees
Languages of instruction
Main language
German
Further languages
English
