Psycholinguistics - OEBCC2107Z

• Title: Psycholinguistics
• Guaranteed by: Katedra českého jazyka (41-KCJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: yes
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / 20
• Key competences: critical thinking, 4EU+ Flagship 2, multilingualism
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: distance
• Is provided by: OEBCC1701Z
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D.

Annotation

This course examines the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain, and aspects of society and culture. Topics: 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, language impairments. Learning outcomes, goals, aims: Students will get acquinted with psycholinguistic approach to the human langauge and its development, they will be able to apply psycholinguistic methods in the research.

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

Course completion requirements

A student has to produce a written paper on one of the chosen seminar topics.

Attendance 70%. Active participation in the class. 

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)

Teaching methods

This course will be held online via ZOOM. There is a Moodle course available, including course materials, lectures and presentations. 

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

Requisites for virtual mobility

 

 

 The course will be held online via ZOOM.

 

Moodle course:

 

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

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)

Entry requirements

There are no prerequisities required in this course.

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