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Psycholinguistics - OPNA4A032B
Title: Psycholingvistika
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / 20 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
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: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc.
Pre-requisite : OPNA4A011A
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (07.09.2023)
This course introduces language as a unique product of cognitive processes of human mind, differing from any other type of communication. It shows how language is used to organize human thought and to categorize experience, which is also why it is indispensable even for teaching. Topics: 1. Introduction; position of psycholinguistics, research objectives, key concepts; 2. Animal and human communication; properties of human language; non-verbal communication; sign language 3: First language acquisition; language loss 4. Comprehension 5: Production; meaning representation; theory of schemata; 6: Language skills (speaking, writing, reading, listening) 7: Bilingualism 8: Brain and language; language disorders; memory; information processing
Descriptors -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (07.09.2023)

Self-study of literature 5 hours

Work with study materials 5 hours

Assignments 10 hours

Seminar paper 9 hours

Preparation for the credit test 15 hours

Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (07.09.2023)

AITCHISON, Jean. The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. 5th edition London & New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN 978-0415610186

FERNÁNDEZOVÁ, Eva M. a CAIRNSOVÁ-SMITHOVÁ, Helen. Základy psycholingvitiky. Praha: Karolinum. 2014. ISBN 978-80-246-2435-8.

FIELD, John. Psycholinguistics. A Resource Book for Students. London & New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 978-0415276009

FIELD, John. Psycholinguistics: Key Concepts. London & New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 978-0415258913

NEBESKÁ, Iva. Úvod do psycholingvistiky. Praha: H&H, 1992. ISBN 80-85467-75-5

OWENS, Robert E. JR. Language Development: An Introduction. 8th edition. London: Pearson, 2011. ISBN 978-0132582520

SCOVEL, Thomas. Psycholinguistics. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. ISBN 0 19 437213 8

WARREN, Paul. Introducing Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 5th printing, 2017. ISBN 978-0-521-130-56-1.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (07.09.2023)

SYLLABUS 23

12/10/23 Introduction to psycholinguistics

19/10/23 Language acquisition

26/10/23 Language comprehension and production

(2/11-23/11/23 teaching practice, missed classes)

30/11/23 Language skills

7/12/23 Bilingualism and related topics

14/12/23 Language, brain/mind; language centres

21/12/23 Presentation of reviews or small-scale psycholinguistic experiments

4/1/24 Presentation of reviews or small-scale psycholinguistic experiments

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc. (07.09.2023)

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

 

● One of two alternatives:

- Conducting a small-scale psycholinguistic research/ experiment, inspired by an existing psycholinguistic study and presenting the findings in seminars

- Comparing and reviewing two recent psycholinguistic studies dealing with similar topics and presenting the results in seminars

● Submitting hard copy version of the review or the small-scale psycholinguistic experiment conducted (at least two pages), meeting all the formal and content standards, by the end of the first week of the exam period

● Theoretical test verifying the student´s familiarity with essential concepts in Psycholinguistics taking the form of a Multiple-choice test (30 minutes, min. requirement for a pass: 11/15pts). The student has three attempts to pass the test. Their proficiency and formulation skills are included in the assessment criteria.

 

 
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