Methods and applications: Psycholinguistics 09-MAAP-11

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Learning content

• Psycholinguistics and its subfields (including language acquisition, learning and attrition, speech production and perception, lexical access and syntactic processing, and others).
• Psycholinguistics contextualised: Input from neurolinguistics, cognitive science, and acknowledgement of interactivity.
• From empirical research to theory and models and back: What is “true”, what is “real”,
• Observation and experiment: Challenges and typical issues.
• Software and hardware for empirical psycholinguistic studies.
• The design of observation: Steps and decisions.
• The design of experimental study: Steps and decisions.
• Standards and classics of experimental approach in psycholinguistics
o Reaction time: Exploring lexical access, syntactic processing, speech perception.
o Naming and lexical decision. Exploring mental lexicon.
o Priming and multiple stimuli procedures;
o Eyetracking helps in language acquisition studies, reading research and interaction analysis.
o Direct monitoring of brain activity. Event-Related Potentials studies (EEG). Contemporary neuroimaging techniques (CAT, PET, fMRI and others).
• Interaction and co-ordination. A wider view of psycholinguistic mechanisms. Alignment, entrainment, synchrony.
• Psycholinguist in the field. Consequences of going out of the lab. Collecting non-experimental data.
• Data analysis in psycholinguistics.

Module learning aims

Selective class for first and second year students of ELLDo as part of the modul Methods and Applications. Instruction will be provided on research techniques and methods in contemporary psycholinguistics. Observation-based and experimental studies from major subfields of psycholinguistics and covering most popular research approaches will be discussed along with fundamental questions and current issues in psycholinguistic research. Students will learn how to plan and carry out observations and how to design and carry out psycholinguistic experiments, taking appropriate care of technological means and ethical aspects

Major

Empirical Linguistics and Language Documentation

Number of hours

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

(in Polish) przedmiot skończy się egzaminem

Student workload (ECTS credits)

6 ECTS credits

Cycle of studies

2nd cycle

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to
• name major subfields of psycholinguistics, define majors problems of psycholinguistic research and understand its place in contemporary studies of language and communication;
• use psycholinguistic terminology and read academic texts in psycholinguistics;
• design an observation-based study for a selection of typical research questions and situations;
• design an experimental study for a selection of typical research questions and situations;
• use software tools for psycholinguistic research;
• critically analyse empirical psycholinguistic studies.

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 09-MAAP-11 in USOSweb