Psycholinguistics

Aims

Aims

The course aims to introduce you to central areas of psycholinguistic theory and research:

• speech perception
• language production
• language comprehension
• language and the brain
• language in special populations
• theoretical approaches

Programme

Programme

Contact hours

The course lasts for one term and is taught for three hours per week (two hours of lecture and one seminar hour).

Teaching programme

The module will explore issues in the study of language as a source of evidence about the human mind, touching upon a large variety of topics:

• animal language experiments,
• language disorders,
• language acquisition and processing,
• language evolution.

The discussion will cover a variety of theoretical approaches, including behaviourism, nativism, and usage-based linguistics, as well as experimental methods and evidence.

Teaching materials

A reading pack will be provided and supplemented by handouts that summarise lecture topics not covered in the reading pack.

Assessment

Assessment

Formative work

• 4 short answer questions

Assessment

• two short essays