Psychology and language an introduction to psycholinguistics pdf

[PDF] Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics - Semantic Scholar

This module is an introduction to Psycholinguistics, an interdisciplinary field of study which aims to understand how humans learn, represent, comprehend, and produce language. It will begin by asking what it means to know a language and explore the nature of our linguistic competence. Students will examine core properties of mental representations and processes involved in acquiring and understanding language, and how linguistic processes unfold in real time. Finally, students will explore issues in perception, production and acquisition in three core domains: speech sounds, words, and sentences. This is a level one module equivalent to first year undergraduate. No prior subject knowledge is required to study this module but students are expected to have a keen interest in the subject area.