Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language & the Mind

This course is an introduction to psycholinguistics -- the study of how humans learn, represent, comprehend, and produce language. The course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of both the research methodologies used in psycholinguistic research and many of the well-established findings in the field. Through weekly reading and discussion, students will also look at the flexibility of language and language use, the influence of psycholinguistic processes on reading and writing, and the social use of language. This course will be a strong entry point into psycholinguistics, speech-language therapy, and computer language learning majors.