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Psycholinguistics - OPNA1A116A
Title: Psycholingvistika
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity: 0 / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (07.09.2021)
This course introduces students to English psycholinguistics, familiarizing them with its crucial concepts, topics and research methods. It deals with theoretical issues and their practical application, suggesting also their relevance for foreign language teaching. The course addresses a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the language, brain and mind, language disorders and language loss, language production and comprehension, first language acquisition and bilingualism, animal and human communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, language skills and more. Following the introductory theoretical sessions, the course is established particularly on student´s active involvement, taking the form of student presentations, research projects and seminar debates. It is designed to familiarize the students with the most substantial findings in the field, to enhance their understanding of the unique nature of languge and communication, to suggest the impact for foreigh language teaching, to raise the students´awareness of crucial factors affecting communication and to cultivate their ability to reflect on and discuss some of the central issues in the discipline.
Descriptors -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (07.09.2021)

To be specified.

Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2021)

Essential sources:

John Field (2006) Psycholinguistics. A Resource Book for Students. Abingdon: Routledge.

Thomas Scovel (1998) Psycholinguistics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Paul Warren (2013) Introducing Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Recommended sources:

Aitchison, J. (1992) Introducing Language and Mind. London nd New Yord: Penguin.

Aitchison, J. (2004) The Articulate Mammal. An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. 4th ed. London: Routledge.

Altmann, G.T.M. (2005) Výstup na babylonskou věž. Otázky jazyka, mysli a porozumění. Praha: Triada.

Arabski, J., Wojtaszek, A. (eds.) (2010) Second Language Acquisition. Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on SLA. Bristol, Buffalo: Multilingual Matters.

Croft, W. and  Cruse, A.D. (2004) Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, D. (1998) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Langage. Cambridge: Cabridge University Press.

Crystal, D. (2007) How Language Works. 2nd edition. London: Penguin.

Deacon, T.W. (1997) The Symbolic Species. The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain. London and New York: W.W Norton & Co.

Everet, C. (2013) Linguistic Relativity. Evidence across Languages and Cognitive Domains. Applications of Cognitive Linguistics. (ACL) Berlin and Boston: W. de Gruyter.

Fernandéz, E.M. (2011) Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics. Chichester, Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

Fernandézová, E.M., Cairnsová, H.S.(2014)  Základy psycholingvistiky. Praha: Karolinum.

Gaskell, G. (ed.) (2007) The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Geaney, D. (1996) Discourse Analysis and Related Topics for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Praha: Karolinum.

Grosjean, F., Li, P. (2013) The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism. Chicester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Kess, J. J. (1992) Psycholinguistics, Psychology, Linguistics, and the Study of Natural Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Nebeská, I. (1992) Úvod do psycholingvistiky. Praha: H& H

Norbert, F. (2012) Bilingual Competence and Bilingual Proficiency in Child Development. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Pinker, S. (2007) The Language Instinct. How the Mind Creates Language. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Pípalová, R.  (2000) Intersentential Connectives – A Textual Analysis. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica 5. Prague Studies in English XXII, 91-115.

Pípalová, R. (2002) On Cohesion and Coherence in a Selected Fairy-Tale Sample. In. A. Grmelová, M. Farrell, Prague Conference on Linguistics and Literary Studies. Praha: UK, PEDF, 61-76.

Robinson, P. and Ellis, N.C.  (2008) Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Secod Language Acquisition. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge

Schwarzová, M. (2009) Úvod do kognitivní lingvistiky. Praha: Dauphin.

Traxler, M.J. and Gernsbacher, M.A. (eds.) (2006) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. 2nd edition. Amsterdam, Oxford, Burlington and San Diego: Elsevier

Yule, G. (2014) The Study of Language. 5th edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2021)

●Theoretical part: Topics:

Introduction to psycholinguistics; history and position of psycholinguistics; theories of language origin;

Language acquisition; critical period; language and aging; loss of language (19/10)

Communication: animal and human; verbal and non-verbal; sign language; properties of human language (12/10)

Language production and comprehension (16/10)

Language skills (speaking, writing, reading,listening); bilingualism (30/11)

Language, mind and brain; language centres; language disorders; memory; mental lexicon; cognitive linguistics (7/12)

 

●Presentation of reviews (14/12)

●Presentation of individual psycholinguistic experiments (21/12;4/1)

 

 

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (09.09.2021)

● Active participation in seminars (max. two missed classes)

● A review established on comparing  two recent studies on a selected psycholinguistic topic, to be followed by in-class presentation

● Carrying out a psycholinguistic research/ experiment, and presenting the findings in seminars

● Multiple choice test verifying the student´s familiarity with key concepts in the field (30 minutes,  at least 11pts out of 15)

(the candidate has up to three attempts to pass the test)

(Note: In case the pandemic situation moves testing online, the multiple-choice format of tests will be replaced by open tests.)

 The candidate´s proficiency and formulation skills are included in assessment criteria.

 
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