Psycholinguistics Course

This course provides an introduction to Psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics is the field that studies the information processing mechanisms that govern the use of language in comprehension and production, acquisition, and representation. This course also presents historical knowledge of psycholinguistics, biological functions of language, language and cognition, language perception, production and development, which includes first-language acquisition, and second-language learning. Purposes of this course are, 1). to understand current theories of human language use, 2). to understand many of the current methodologies used to study language, and 3). to understand how language processing relates to other fields of psychology.

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being able to understand escribe the interdisciplinary nature of psycholinguistics and its relation to linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science

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being able to analyze the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension

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being able to examine theories of language development in children

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being able to evaluate recent research findings and advancements in psycholinguistics