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This course introduces students to psycholinguistics, the study of the psychological and neurological processes underlying human language. We will examine how people acquire, comprehend, produce, and represent language in the mind and brain. The main focus will be on the mental lexicon (or mental dictionary) - a language user’s cognitive storage of internalized knowledge of the properties of words. Lexical access refers to the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon, and this includes both word recognition as well as production processes. This course provides an introduction to how lexical memory works, how words are organized and how their semantic and formal knowledge is represented. The main focus will be on orthographic, phonological, and semantic aspects of words. In addition, we will discuss challenges posed by multiple languages memorized by a language user (the “bilingual/ multilingual mental lexicon”). Students will learn about various empirical techniques, which are used to investigate the organizational structure of the mental lexicon, ranging from experimental psychology to computer modeling. The aim of this course is to familiarize students with current issues and experimental approaches to the organization and function of the mental lexicon in first and second/foreign language users.
In the summer semester of 2026, this course will be offered as a project-based course. This means that it will be a mix of regular classes, online classes, and empirical projects conducted by the participants. Please have a close look at the syllabus on the Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=9049 <br> This course is primarily intended for students of Anglistika-amerikanistika and Obecná lingvistika. The instructor has the right to exclude other students from the course. Poslední úprava: Luef Eva Maria, doc. Dr. phil., Mag. phil. (05.02.2026)
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Selected literature Aitchison, J. (2012). Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon. London: John Wiley & Sons. Bybee, J. (2000). The phonology of the lexicon: Evidence from lexical diffusion. In S. Kemmer & M. Barlow (Eds.), Usage-based models of language (pp. 65-86). California: CSLI Publications. Charles-Luce, J., & Luce, P. A. (1990). Similarity neighbourhoods of words in young children’s lexicon. Journal of Child Language, 17(1), 205-215. Dell, G. S. (1986). A spreading-activation theory of retrieval in sentence production. Psychologial Review, 93(3), 283-321. Dóczi, B. (2020). An overview of conceptual models and theories of lexical representation in the mental lexicon. In S. Webb (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies (pp. 46-65). London, New York: Routledge. Fay, D., & Cutler, A. (1977). Malapropisms and the structure of the mental lexicon. Linguistic Inquiry, 8(3), 505-520. Levelt, W. J. M. (1999). Models of word production. Trends in Cognitive Science, 3(6), 223-232. Luce, P. A., & Pisoni, D. B. (1998). Recognizing spoken words: The neighborhood activation model. Ear and Hearing, 19, 1-36. Luef, E. M. (2022). Growth algorithms in the phonological networks of second language learners. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(12), e26-44. doi:10.1037/xge0001248 Marslen-Wilson, W. D., & Zwitserlood, P. (1989). Accessing spoken words: The importance of word onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception and performance, 15, 576. McClelland, J. L., & Elman, J. L. (1986). The TRACE model of speech perception. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 1-86. Turnbull, R., & Peperkamp, S. (2017). What governs a language’s lexicon? Determining the organizing principles of phonological neighbourhood networks. In H. Cherifi, S. Gaito, W. Quattrociocchi, & A. Sala (Eds.), Complex networks and their applications V (pp. 83-94). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Ullman, M. T. (2007). The biocognition of the mental lexicon. In M. G. Gaskell, G. T. M. Altmann, P. Bloom, A. Caramazza, & P. Levelt (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 267-288). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Vitevitch, M. S. (2012). What do foreign neighbors say about the mental lexicon? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15(1), 167-172. Weber, A., & Scharenborg, O. (2012). Models of spoken-word recognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3, 387-401. Poslední úprava: Luef Eva Maria, doc. Dr. phil., Mag. phil. (17.01.2023)
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syllabus can be found on the class Moodle Poslední úprava: Luef Eva Maria, doc. Dr. phil., Mag. phil. (05.02.2026)
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