Studies the psychological processes involved in the acquisition, understanding and use of language. Provides an overview of the following research areas: speech perception, word recognition, sentence and discourse processing, speech production, first-, second-, and third-language acquisition, bilingual and multilingual acquisition, and language processing in the brain. PY 1000 is recommended as a prerequisite.
Code
LI3035
Name
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Equivalencies
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
LI (Linguistics)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
3016
Last update with CAMS
discuss, evaluate and write about the principal theories and models of language processing, production and acquisition
identify and analyse language phenomena in light of these theories
posit and test hypotheses about language processing, production and acquisition
conduct experiments about language
articulate the results of language experiments and surveys in both verbal and written modalities