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Introduction to Psycholinguistics - APS300479

Title:	Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Guaranteed by:	Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	summer
Points:	3
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/1, C [HT]
Capacity:	15 / unknown (15)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	doc. PhDr. Filip Smolík, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	doc. PhDr. Filip Smolík, Ph.D.

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Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (01.02.2024)

Anotace
A survey class on the psychology of language. How language is coded in the mind, how people understand words
and sentences, what happens when they use them, and other similar topics. Includes lectures and seminars, with
the seminars including student-led presentations on research papers and hands-on activities demonstrating
some of the key phenomena.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (01.02.2024)

1. Core concepts, overview of the field, bit of history, overview of methods. Behavioral methods, response time, reading time, psychophysiological methods.

2. Speech perception and language comprehension. Word recognition, phoneme restoration.

3. Language comprehension. Parsing, comprehension of sentential structure. Experimental evidence for sentence structure. Incremental and predictive processing. Gaps and traces.

4. Language production. Speech errors, TOT state. Levelt’s model, interactive models.

5. Sentence production phenomena: agreement attraction, syntactic priming.

6. Word meaning and its representation. Concepts, words and word meanings. Semantic networks, semantic features, spreading activation. Prototype theory. Neuropsychology of meaning. Dual coding, imagebility.

7. Brain and language. Aphasia, neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods. Main findings on language localization.

8. Developmental language disorders, genetic language disorders, language and genetics.

9. Language acquisition. Sensitivity to language before speaking. Segmentation in infants, early comprehension of grammar. CHILDES, telegraphic speech.

10. Bilingualism, multilingualism. Ultimate attainment, bilingual advantage. Shared vs. isolated representation of languages.

11. Reading, activation of phonology in reading. Pseudohomophones, phonological neighborhood. Reading disorders, neuropsychology of reading, developmental disorders.

12. Language and thought. Sapir-Whorf, Vygotsky, language effects on perception and memory.

13. extra topics

Entry requirements -

Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (01.02.2024)

Because the class is obligatory for some students of Linguistics, they will be given preference if there are too many students trying to enrol in the class.