PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (PY3035)

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:

PY3035

Name:

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Discipline:

PY (Psychology)

Type:

Regular

Level:

Undergraduate

Credits:

Can be taken twice for credit?:

Pre-requisites:

None

Co-requisites:

None

Equivalencies:

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (LI3035)

Learning Outcomes

articulate the results of language experiments and surveys in both verbal and written modalities
conduct experiments about language
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

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (PY3035)

Learning Outcomes

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