Professional Documents
Culture Documents
3. Required Textbooks:
1. Fernndez, Eva M., and Helen Smith. Cairns. Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics. Chichester,
West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
2. Traxler, Matthew. Introduction to Psycholinguistics. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.
3. Schunk, Dale H. Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective. Boston: Pearson, 2012. Print.
4. Assessment:
Final Exam: 45%
Midterm Exam: 25%
Quizzes: 15%
Assignments: 15%
5. Syllabus:
Week #
Topics
Readings
1&2
- What is language?
Ch1 & 2 (Fernandezs
- The speech signal
Fundamentals of
- The nature of linguistic psycholinguistics)
Comments
competnece
3&4
- Biological origins of
language
Ch3 (Fernandezs
Fundamentals of
psycholinguistics)
Assignment 1 (4)
- Speech production
7&8
9 &10
- Structural processing
(Parsing)
11 & 12
- Remembering
sentences, processing
discourse, and having
conversations
13 - Language acquisition
14 - Bilingual language
processing
15 - Aphasia