Syllabus
1. specifics of the psycholinguistic approach to the analysis of linguistic phenomena, psycholinguistic paradigms
2. specifics of natural human language x animal means of communication, human adaptation to language
3. mental structures of the individual connected with speech activity: mental encyclopedia, mental lexicon
4. mental structures of the individual connected with speech activity: mental grammar
5. human communication procedure, the mental process of text production and perception and its modelling
6. speech disorders, dysphasia and aphasia
7. acquisition of the mother tongue: stages, development of pronunciation, characteristics of the first lexicon
8. acquisition of the mother tongue: sequence of acquisition of grammatical categories of flexible words, characteristics of the first syntactic constructions
9. learning a foreign language, bilingualism in different concepts
10. language and thought, linguistic relativism x universalism
11. metaphor as a manifestation of the economy of thought, cognitive linguistics
12. non-verbal means of communication, sign language
Annotation
This course examines the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain, and aspects of society and culture.
Topics: language abilities and mental structures in the individual; the interface between thought and language; mental encyclopaedia; mental vocabulary; mental aspects of the process of production, perception and interaction; interference; the creation of concepts and metaphors; learning from text, language acquisition, language impairments.
Learning outcomes, goals, aims: Students will get acquinted with psycholinguistic approach to the human langauge and its development, they will be able to apply psycholinguistic methods in the research.