Ling 640Y - Psycholinguistics

  • Evidence from language for the nature of human cognition
  • Evidence from cognitive processes for the nature of language
  • Across languages, the investigation of:

    • Readings:

  • Readings are available in the Ling/SLS Reading Room (or from the UH Libraries).
  • Many of the readings are available in electronic form through the UH libraries.

    • Next offering:

  • Ling 640Y is normally offered every Spring semester.  

    • Instructor:

    Amy Schafer
    Email: aschafer at hawaii dot edu
    Office: Moore 562
    Office phone: 956-3226

    Course description:

    This course is a broad introduction to psycholinguistics, with emphasis on sentence processing by adults.  Areas covered will include speech perception, word recognition and production, lexical ambiguity, sentence comprehension, discourse processing, sentence production, and the role of memory in language processing. Participants will be expected to do weekly reading from a collection of articles and book chapters, present at least one article from the required reading list, and write a proposal for a research project.

    Prerequisites:

    An advanced undergraduate or graduate-level introduction to syntax (e.g., Ling 422) and completion or concurrent enrollment in an advanced undergraduate or graduate-level introduction to phonology (e.g., Ling 421) or permission of the instructor.  You should be comfortable drawing phrase structure trees for common sentence types, such as VP- vs. NP-attachment of PPs and different types of relative clauses.  Most importantly, you should be prepared to read 2-3 journal articles every week and evaluate them critically.

    Associated research and teaching laboratories:

    Language Analysis and Experimentation Labs (LAE Labs)

    A few useful links:

    MRC word database
    English Lexicon Project
    Normed picture stimuli
    PsycInfo

    Who is this course for?

    Graduate students in:

    Department of Linguistics course evaluation, in form-fillable pdf.

    Last updated August 2009.