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Psycholinguistics

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2024-2025

Admission requirements

None.

Description

This course provides a basic overview in subjects and methods of psycholinguistic research. The main aim of the course is to provide an introduction to core areas of psycholinguistics: the mental lexicon, sentence processing, and language production. Standard methods of psycholinguistic research will also be introduced, such as behavioral methods (reaction time and error analyses, eye-tracking, etc.), as well as basic statistical analysis of behavioral data.

Course objectives

  • Students gain insights into the most important problems and concepts of language production and language comprehension.

  • Students become familiar with the most relevant psycholinguistic theories and models of language production and language comprehension.

  • Students are introduced to the most important psycholinguistic research methods for language production and language comprehension.

  • Students are able to read and understand scientific research papers published in peer-reviewed journals or edited volumes.

Timetable

The timetables are available through My Timetable.

Mode of instruction

Lecture

Assessment method

Assessment

Two written exams: one during mid-term (40%) and one at the end of term (50%). Students need to pass both exams, i.e. both exams need to be sufficient.
In addition, assessment includes a question that students are supposed to prepare and ask during one of the lectures (10%).

Both exams can be resat during the official resit.

Inspection and feedback

How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.

Reading list

Trevor A. Harley (2014), The Psychology of Language. From Data to Theory (4th edition), Hove and New York: Psychology Press.
Occasionally, specific research papers will have to be read. The relevant papers will be made known to the students on Brightspace

Registration

Enrolment through My Studymap is mandatory.

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Contact

For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar

For questions related to the content of the course, please contact the lecturer, you can find their contact information by clicking on their name in the sidebar.

For questions regarding enrollment please contact the Education Administration Office Reuvensplaats
E-mail address Education Administration Office Reuvensplaats: osz-oa-reuvensplaats@hum.leidenuniv.nl

For questions regarding your studyprogress contact the Coordinator of Studies

Remarks

Participation in the course is not obligatory for the examination, but is highly recommended.