Introduction to Psycholinguistics - OEBCC1701Z

• Title: Introduction to Psycholinguistics
• Guaranteed by: Katedra českého jazyka (41-KCJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / 0 (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; can be fulfilled in the future; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D.
• Class: Předměty v angličtině - bc.

Annotation

English

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.

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Czech

Specifika psycholingvistického přístupu k analýze jazykových jevů, živá psycholingvistická paradigmata; mentální struktury individua spjaté s řečovou činností, mentální encyklopedie, mentální slovník, mentální gramatika; řečový mechanismus člověka, mentální průběh produkce a percepce textů a jeho modelování; jazyk a kognice, mapování, metafora jako projev ekonomie myšlení; akvizice mateřštiny, učení se cizímu jazyku, bilingvismus.

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Descriptors

No previous knowledge required.

Moodle course:

 

https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=15200

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Literature

de BEER, C. – M. CARRAGHER – K. van NISPEN – K. HOGREFE – J. P. de RUITER – M. L. ROSE. How Much Information Do People With Aphasia Convey via Gesture? American journal of speech-language pathology, 2017, vol. 26, no. 2, 483–497.

FERNÁNDEZ, Eva M. a CAIRNS-SMITH, Helen. Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics. Malden, Oxford: Willey-Blackwell. 2011. 

CHEJNOVÁ, P. Acquisition of morphological categories and vocabulary in early ontogenesis of a Czech child. Praha: Karolinum, 2016. 

CHEJNOVÁ, P. CHEJNOVÁ Pavla. Development of Syntactic Competence in a Czech Child. Praha: PedF UK, 2019. 

FIELD, John. Psycholinguistics. A Resource Book for Students. London & New York: Routledge, 2003. 

FIELD, John. Psycholinguistics: Key Concepts. London & New York: Routledge, 2004. 

INGRAM, J. C. L. Neurolinguistics: an introduction to spoken language processing and its disorders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

JANECKA, M. (2021). The relationship between speech and gestures in persons with aphasia: Evidence from the Czech perspective. Topics in Linguistics, 22(1), 1–14.

KENDON, A. Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

TEASELL, R. Aphasia and Apraxia. London, Ontario: Parkwood Institute, 2016.

WARREN, Paul. Introducing Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 5th printing, 2017.

WHITWORTH, A. – J. WEBSTER – D. HOWARD. A cognitive neuropsychological approach to assessment and intervention in aphasia: a clinician’s guide. Hove/New York: Psychology Press, 2002.

 

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Requirements to the exam

Individual reading and work in the seminar. Written work on one of the topics covered in the course. Attendance. 

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

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 

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)