Psycholinguistics

 Fall 2009

Tuesday, 2:20-5:10 PM

 

Instructor:

Jenny Kuo, Ph.D.

E-mail:

jennykuo@mail.ncyu.edu.tw (Email is the best way to reach me)

Homepage:

http://web.ncyu.edu.tw/~jennykuo (Course information will be posted on my homepage)

Phone:

2263411 ext. 8423  

Office:

423 Building of Creativity

Office Hours:

10:10-12:00 am Wednesdays & 2:20-4:10 pm Thursdays

Syllabus

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 

This course is designed to introduce students to the field of psycholinguistics. The students in this course will expand his or her knowledge about how individuals comprehend, produce and acquire language.  They will synthesize and apply course content to teaching or other language-related work.  

 

 

REQUIRED TEXT:

 

 

Carroll, David.  (2004).  Psychology of Language.  Fourth edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.  文鶴代理 04-23170216

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

 

1.Midterm exam   30%

2.Final exam      30%

3.Homework      30% ( 5% each)

4.Participation     10%  

 

Homework:

Answer one thought question at the end of six chapters of your choice.  The answer for each question is limited to one double-spaced typed page.  The homework is due at the beginning of next class after the chapter is finished.

 

For this class to be successful, everyone must contribute.  This includes preparing for class by attending class sessions, completing readings by the appropriate date and actively participating in class discussions.  Participation is important enough to the class that it will count as part of your final grade.  Each student will be given up to 10% points depending on their contributions to class.  There will be “surprise” in-class assignments or quizzes that will measure participation.

 

COURSE SCHEDULE (subject to change)

 

DATE

TOPIC

READINGS

September 22

Introduction

 

September 29

Introduction to Psycholinguistics

Ch. 1

October 6

Linguistic Principles

Ch. 2

October 13

Psychological Mechanisms

Ch. 3

October 20

Language Perception

Ch. 4

October 27

Mental Lexicon

Ch. 5

November 3

Sentence Comprehension

Ch. 6

November 10

Discourse Comprehension

Ch. 7

November 17

Midterm Exam

 

November 24

Speech Production

Ch. 8

December 1

Conversational Interaction

Ch. 9

December 8

Early Language Acquisition

Ch. 10

December 15

Later Language Acquisition

Ch. 11

December 22

Processes of Language Acquisition

Ch. 12

December 29

Biological Foundations of Language

Ch. 13

January 5

Language, Culture and Cognition

Ch. 14

January 12

Review

 

January 19

Final Exam

 

 

References

Aitchison, Jean (1998) The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Routledge. [a basic but quirky introduction to psycholinguistics]

Berko Gleason, J., & Ratner, N. B. (Eds.) (1993) Psycholinguistics. Harcourt Brace. [contains very basic chapters by some famous psycholinguists]

Garman, Michael (1990) Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press. [good, but nothing on language development]

Gleitman, L. R. and M. Liberman (1995) An Invitation to Cognitive Science Vol. 1: Language, second edition. MIT Press. [introductory articles by famous researchers]

Harley, Trevor.  (2001).  The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory.  2nd edition.  Psychology Press.

Newmeyer, Frederick J. (1988) Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey III: Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects. Cambridge University Press. [introductory articles by famous researchers]

Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. William Morrow. [entertaining but biased]

Steinberg, Danny, Nagata, Horoshi & Pline, David.  (2001). Psycholinguistics.  Longman