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Psycholinguistics
is a marriage of psychology and linguistics.
Linguistics studies language as a formal system –how is language structured? What are rules for organizing sounds into words, words into sentences? Its three main branches are phonology, semantics, and morphology.
Psycholinguistics is the study of language behavior: how people learn and use language to communicate ideas.
Central topics: how is language perceived, represented, understood, and remembered in the mind and brain?
It adopts an experimental approach.
Adults –Normal and Abnormal
(e.g., normal readers and dyslexics)
Children – Normal and Abnormal
(e.g., normal and stuttering)
Participants, subjects
The mental lexicon (from Alec Marantz, 2001)
sport figure
sing door carry
turf turtle gold turk turkey
turn
water turbo turquoise
turnip turmoil
sport figure
sing door carry
turf turtle gold turk turkey
turn
water turbo turquoise
turnip turmoil TURN
The mental lexicon (from Alec Marantz, 2001)
Automatic activation
TURN
sport figure
sing door carry
turf turtle gold
turk turkey
water turn
turbo turquoiseturnip turmoil
Lateral inhibition
TURN
sport figure
sing door carry
turf turtle gold turk turkey
water turn turbo turquoise
turnip turmoil
Objectives:
1. To promote critical thinking of theoretical and methodological issues in psycholinguistic research
2. To bring students to an understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of modern psycholinguistic inquiries
3. To develop students' skills necessary for high-quality paper presentation
LING2034 PsycholinguisticsSyllabus Week 1 Sep. 8Overview of course requirements and syllabus Week 2 Sep. 15What Is Psycholinguistics? Week 3 Sep. 22Word Recognition: The Mental Lexicon I Week 4 Sep. 29Word Recognition: The Mental Lexicon II Week 5 Oct. 6Phonological Processing in Word Recognition(Topics for the midterm essay will be announced.) Week 6 Oct. 13Sentence Comprehension: Syntactic and Semantic Processing
LING2034 PsycholinguisticsSyllabus (continued) Week 7 Oct. 20Reading week Week 8 Oct. 27Midterm essay Week 9 Nov. 3Language and the Brain I: Lesion Study Week 10 Nov. 10Language and Thought
Week 11 Nov. 17Language and the Brain II: Functional Brain Imaging Study Week 12 Nov. 24How Children Learn to Read Week 13 Dec. 1Summary of the semester’s teaching
Instructor Dr. L. H. TanOffice: 115 Main BuildingOffice phone: 2241-5877Email: [email protected] Office hour: by appointment.
3A, 2 U Drive, Joint Laboratories for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience2241-5873, 2241-5877
Teaching Assistants (1) Miss Claudia WongOffice: 242 MBEmail: [email protected]: TBA
(2) Mr Jie Zhuang Office: 254 MBEmail: [email protected]: TBA
Course Materials:
1. Rayner K., & Pollatsek A. The Psychology of Reading. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1989. (Available in the University Bookstore. The Main Library has at least one copy of the book.)
2. Reading materials will be distributed by the lecturer.
The course website: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/m_staff.html Click the instructor’s name, and then the course name. The course website will include downloadable materials that are helpful if you miss a lecture, lose your notes, or are reviewing for a test. Handouts distributed in class and slides used during lectures can also be found from the website.
Evaluation and Grading Class participation: counting as 20% of your grade. One midterm essay (open book): 40% of your grade. (The midterm essay will be written during the class. Topics of 3 possible essays will be announced in advance; you will need to prepare for all of them, since you won't know which one will be actually chosen by the lecturer.) One term paper: 40%. (Topics of 5 possible essays will be announced; you will need to choose 1 and write a paper of 4-5 pages.)