Syllabus
SYLLABUS 23
LECTURES 10/10/23 L: Introduction to psycholinguistics; history and position of psycholinguistics; theories of language origin; 17/10/23 Language acquisition; critical period; language and aging; loss of language 24/10/23 Language comprehension 31/10 - 21/11/23 (Missed classes - teaching practice) 28/11/23 Language production 5/12/23 Language skills (speaking, writing, reading,listening); bilingualism 12/12/23 Bilingualism 19/12/23 Language, mind and brain; language centres; language disorders; memory; mental lexicon; 2/1/24 (Lecture replaced by Student presentations of small-scale psycholinguistic experiments)
SEMINARS:
Seminar activities will include various practical exercises, comprehension tasks, discussions, small-scale psycholinguistic experiments, and presentations of reviews of relevant professional research.
SYLLABUS FOR SEMINARS: 10/10/23 LECTURE: Communication: animal and human; verbal and non-verbal; sign language; properties of human language 17/10/23 Student reviews of psycholinguistic studies 24/10/23 Student reviews of psycholinguistic studies 28/11/23 Student reviews of psycholinguistic studies 5/12/23 Student reviews of psycholinguistic studies 12/12/23 Student presentations of their small-scale experiments 19/12/23 Student presentations of their small-scale experiments 2/1/24 Student presentations of their small-scale experiments
Annotation
This course introduces language as a unique product of cognitive processes of human mind, differing from any other type of communication. It shows how language is used to organize human thought and to categorize experience, which is why it is indispensable even for teaching. Topics:
1. Introduction; history and position of psycholinguistics, research objectives, key concepts; theories of language origin;
2. Animal and human communication; non-verbal communication; sign language
3. Biological foundations of language. Properties of human language and language competence.
4. First language acquisition
5. Memory; information processing; mental lexicon
6. Comprehension and Production; Meaning representation
7. Production and reception of discourse;Theory of schemata; Informativity
8. Language skills (speaking, writing, reading, listening)
9. Brain and language;language disorders; language loss;
10. Bilingualism
11. Psycholinguistic research and experiment