Psycholinguistics

Catalog description

This course is meant to introduce students to a broad selection of current issues regarding the relationship among grammar, language processing and cognition. This course will examine cognitive, biological and evolutionary perspectives on various dimensions of linguistic structure. The course presents an introduction to the field of study which blends the disciplines of psychology and linguistics to discover the psychological processes that make it possible for humans to comprehend, produce and acquire language. This course is designed to explore the applications of psycholinguistics to clinical work.