Ling 640Y - Psycholinguistics

This course is an introduction to natural language comprehension and production, with emphasis on native language processing by adults. Areas of psycholinguistics covered include speech perception, word recognition, lexical ambiguity, sentence production and comprehension, discourse processing, the role of memory in language processing, and reanalysis.

Instructor:

Prof. Amy Schafer
Email: aschafer at hawaii dot edu
Office: Moore 562
Office phone: 808-956-3226

Prerequisites:

Introductions to phonology and syntax (e.g., Ling 421 & 422; concurrent enrollment is sufficient) or permission of the instructor. Most importantly, you should be prepared to read about two journal articles each week, understand the structure of each article, evaluate research critically, share your comments with the class, and develop a high-quality project of your own.

Associated research and teaching laboratories:

Language Analysis and Experimentation Labs (LAE Labs)

This course is for graduate students interested in:

Linguistics
Second Language Studies
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages
Languages and Literature of Europe and the Americas
English
Psychology
Speech Pathology and Audiology
Computer and Information Sciences
Philosophy
Anthropology
and other areas related to the study of language and cognition.

Research archives:

Open Science Framework
PsyArXiv
Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

Running experiments:

LBC experiments
E-Prime (installed in the LAE Labs)
PsychoPy (free; installed in the LAE Labs)

Ling 640Y - Psycholinguistics

Instructor:

Prerequisites:

Associated research and teaching laboratories:

This course is for graduate students interested in:

Research archives:

Running experiments:

Phonetics:

Word recognition, corpora:

Image sets:

Searching for references:

Style guidelines and writing resources:

Computer and A/V equipment:

Other material: