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Psycholinguistics - LING2570
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: School of Languages and Linguistic Course Outlines
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LING1000 or LING1500
 
 
Excluded: ENGL2559, LING2602
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Studies the psychology of language, with particular attention to language acquisition in children, the mental lexicon, behaviourism and mentalism in linguistics, the formal architecture of grammar, the relationship between language and thought.


Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course students should be able to describe and explain the most crucial issues about the interaction between the brain and language in relation to how languages are acquired, processed and stored. More specifically, they should be able to:
  • Apply general principles of linguistics to language acquisition in children, language comprehension and production, and to language in its relation to brain processes
  • Compare and choose among modern approaches in psycholinguistics, such as behaviourism and mentalism in terms of their power to account for what we know about the psychological processes underlying the production, processing and representation of human language.

Assessment

  • Assignment 1 - 25%
  • Assignment 2 - 25%
  • Test - 25%
  • Essay (2000 words) - 25%

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