Admission requirements
Student must have completed Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Semantics 1, Syntax 1, and Statistics.
Description
In this course we review the classic literature on syntactic and semantic processing with a focus on different parsing theories and experimental work from the past 40 years, covering among others issues such as ambiguity resolution and garden-path, locality, plausibility, frequency and working memory effects.
We discuss essential psycholinguistic models, the processing of syntactic phenomena (such as long-distance dependencies and binding), phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface (such as negative polarity item(s) licensing) and syntax-prosody interface (such as processing of wh-in-situ questions).
Course objectives
Students acquire basic background knowledge on the classic literature and theories on (syntactic and semantic) sentence processing
Students are able to analyze and compare different parsing models
Students are able to formulate a research question on sentence processing and to generate an
original experiment proposal
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Lecture
Course load
Total course load 5 EC x 28 hours= 140 hours
Lectures: 26 hours
Study of compulsory literature: 40 hours
Assignment(s): 38 hours
Preparation and writing of paper: 36 hours
Assessment method
Assessment
Students will get their total grade (5 ECs) out of the following combination:
(i) 40% of the grade will be based on bi-weekly summaries and bi-weekly PeerMark exercises of articles whose topics will be discussed during the course program
(ii) 60% of the grade will be based on a research paper to be produced at the end of the course
Bi-weekly assignments are mandatory and a prerequisite to hand-in the research paper.
Resit
The resit will consist of rewriting the paper that the student submitted for the course based on the suggestions for improvement suggested by the Instructor.
Exam review
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.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for:
specifying the materials to be discussed during the lectures
additional information about reading summaries and PeerMark assignments
uploading the class material
Reading list
Selected Chapters and articles from different sources will be listed in Blackboard.
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on this website
Contact
For questions about the content of the course, please contact the teacher:
Letitia Pablos Robles
Education Administration Office van Wijkplaats
E-mailaddress Education Administration Office van Wijkplaats: osz-oa-wijkplaats@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Coordinator of Studies: Else van Dijk