Course title:

Psycholinguistics

Course code: PSL236
Course status: Elective
Course leader: Vlasta Erdeljac
Course instructor:
Language of instruction: English
Total hours: 8S
Form of instruction: Seminar
ECTS credits: 4

Course content by topics:

The course basic framework includes various theoretical approaches, models and methods of psycholinguistics research focussed on mental lexicon as the key metaphor of contemporary psycholinguistics. As mental lexicon is defined as the structured storage of all data (phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic) about words necessary for their use in speech or listening/understanding, the course will also address units stored in lexical memory (representations) and the mechanisms of their mental processing. The following topics are discussed in the course: sources of data on the structure of the mental lexicon (healthy/pathological language use; adult language/child language, relations of first and second/and foreign/languages, speech errors); connections between the structure of the mental lexicon and various modalities and media in which language is realized (language production vs. language perception, the visual vs. acoustic word, the isolated word vs. words in connected speech); the influence of general parameters of lexical processing on the processes of the production and perception of language; frequency of words in use, context, duration, sound/phonemic forms of words and their semantic properties. Empirical studies of the Croatian language, with their results placed in the context of relevant psycholinguistics theories and models of mental lexicon, are presented in the course.

Learning outcomes at course level:

– to demonstrate systematic understanding of the fundamental concepts, models and theories of the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics; – to acquire research skills and methods used in psycholinguistics; – to explain and critically evaluate the results of research

Learning outcomes at programme level:

Reading list:

Warren, P. (2013) Introducing Psycholinguistics; Cambridge University Press; Erdeljac, V. (2009) Mentalni leksikon: modeli i činjenice, Ibis, d.o.o. Zagreb; Harley, T. A. (2001) The

psychology of language; From data to theory, Psychology Press Ltd, N. Y. (selected chapters); Aitchison, J. (1994) Words in the mind: an introduction to the mental lexicon, Blackwell; Erdeljac, V. (1997) Prepoznavanje riječi, SOL/ Ibis, Zagreb (selected chapters); Aitchison, J.

(2003) A glossary of language and mind, Edinburgh, University Press.; Erdeljac, V., M. Lakuš (2012) Utjecaj disleksije na uspjeh učenika 3. razreda u nastavnim predmetima Hrvatski jezik i matematika, Govor / Speech, 29 (2), 97-119.; Erdeljac Vlasta (2011) Vrijednost

jezičnih/govornih pogrešaka u istraživanjima jezika: psiholingvistički pristup, U: Vera Vasić (ed.) Jezik u upotrebi / Language in use, Zbornik Primenjena lingvistika u čast Ranku Bugarskom / Aplied linguistics in honour of Ranko Bugarski, Društvo za primenjenu lingvistiku Srbije, Novi Sad, 281-294.; Erdeljac, V., M. Sekulić (2008) Syntactic- Semantic Relationships in the Mental Lexicon of Aphasic Patients, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 22 (10-11): 795-603.

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Assessment of student achievement: course attendance, discussion, seminar paper Quality assurance mechanism: student survey