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LIN 442 Psycholinguistics

400 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

LIN 442 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Scope and history of psycholinguistics
  2. Language and the brain: localisation
  3. First language acquisition in children
  4. Second language acquisition processes
  5. Models of speech production
  6. Speech perception and comprehension
  7. The mental lexicon and word recognition
  8. Sentence processing and parsing
  9. Language disorders and aphasia
  10. Evidence from animal communication studies

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Scope and history of psycholinguistics

The scope and history of psycholinguistics focus on what the field studies, how it developed, and why it became central to understanding the relationship between mind and language. For exam purposes, you must master the meaning of psycholinguistics, its major areas of inquiry, and the historical shift from behaviourist explanations to cognitive approaches in language study.

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