LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING

Instructor:Eva Kehayia

e-mail:ekehay@po-box.mcgill.ca

Required text:Carroll, D.(1999).Psychology of Language (3rd Edition).

Belmont, CA:Brooks/Cole Publ. (POL)

Coursepack containing further required and supplemental readings to follow

SYLLABUS

I. Foundations for Psycholinguistics

A.General introduction 

B.Linguistic theory

C.Biological/Evolutionary bases

D.Models of language processing

II. Auditory Word Recognition & Lexical Access

(Evidence from non-impaired and impaired processing)

IV. Visual Word Recognition, Lexical Access & The Internal/Mental Lexicon

(Evidence from non-impaired and impaired processing)

V. Sentence Processing - Comprehension

(Evidence from non-impaired and impaired processing)

A.Parsing principles

B.Ambiguities & garden-path sentences

VI. Speech Production

(Evidence from non-impaired and impaired processing)

A.Speech errors

B.Speech production models

VII. Sentence Processing - Production

(Evidence from non-impaired and impaired processing)

A.Levels of syntactic representation

B.Sentence production