Course Description
Previously, the study of human languages was pursued in separate disciplines
such as linguistics, psychology and education. Over the past decade, there has
been a strong growing interest in merging the research findings from different
disciplines and merging theories, methodologies and scientific experimentation to examine various aspects of human languages. With the emerging of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, researchers have new perspectives to
understand how human language works: as a system of knowledge which all
human beings hold in common, as a computational ability, as a mental structure
subject to development in children and as a system of how we, human beings,
comprehend sentences. This course aims to serve as a general introduction to
psycholinguistics. It will cover basic areas such as neurolinguistics, speech
perception, word recognition, lexical ambiguity, sentence comprehension,
language acquisition and production.