615 Psycholinguistics U G 5
Prereq: 601, or permission of instructor.
An introduction to high-level language processing, including word recognition, sentence understanding, and discourse processing.
The course is a graduate-level introduction to research on the psychological processes by which humans produce and understand sentences in spoken conversation and reading. It deals with at least the following topics: (a) Speech Perception, the process of detecting distinct 'language sounds' in speech signals; (b) Word recognition, the process of identifying and retrieving relevant word knowledge from memory; (c) Syntactic Parsing, the process of discovering the structure of sentences; (d) Semantic Interpretation, the process of using syntactic structures, word meaning and general world knowledge to interpret strings of language; and (e) Language Acquisition, the process by which a child becomes able to produce and understand sentences of his or her native language(s).
Recommended for undergraduates who have successfully completed 371, or graduate students who would like an introduction to psycholinguistics. Not open to students with credit for Psych 615 or Linguist 671.
Offered 2007-2008:
Offered 2008-2009 (projected):
Instructor's Course Pages:
Shari R. Speer
Last modified 2007-02-12
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