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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM COURSE SYLLABUS Course Title: Psycholinguistics Course Code: 483 Number of credit hours: 3 Instructor: Dr. Mohamed Mazen Galal I. Course Description: Psycholinguistics is the psychological study of language. It is one of the youngest interdisciplinary sciences about language. For a long time, Linguistics has been the only scientific discipline which has made description, analysis, and explanation of language structures and mechanisms. Many facts of language as a tool of human communication have been successfully described in Linguistics. However, language is a psychological phenomenon by nature. It is impossible to acquire deep knowledge about it without using psychological approaches. There are four clusters of issues in this course. The first cluster includes general issues of scientific inquiry of language. Some basic concepts of linguistics like grammar and phonological and syntactic components are introduced in this course. Essential topics of Transformational Grammar and Case Grammar are presented, as well. Different stages of human information processing are considered in order to depict psychological mechanisms underlying language usage. Biological foundations of language are given too. The second cluster consists of the basic knowledge about language comprehension, whose levels of cognitive representations are discussed in detail. Separate lectures are devoted to the cognitive process of speech perception, the issue in the representation of meaning, the structure of the internal lexicon and lexical access in Memory. Recent research on sentence and discourse comprehension is presented in this cluster. The third cluster includes some aspects of language production and the fourth one considers selected problems of language development. Language production and language development are intrinsically difficult subjects to study. As a consequence, there is lack of knowledge about these processes. So each of these topics is presented by only one lecture. III. Course Objectives:

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By the end of this course, English majors are expected to be able to: Distinguish the psychological aspects of language usage; Identify the different aspects of language and the role it plays in the cognitive development and activities; Identify the major approaches to psycholinguistics, with particular emphasis on recent developments in the area; Explain the psychological nature of language; Demonstrate knowledge about different aspects of language as a communication tool; Show what the place of language in cognitive science is.

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IV. Calendar, Course Contents and Assignment Specifications: Time First week

Second week

Third week

Fourth week

Fifth week

Sixth week Seventh week Eighth week

Ninth week

Topic First & Second Session: The scope of Psycholinguistics. Scientific research of language in different disciplines. First & Second Session: Main linguistic topics related to the cognitive nature of language.

First & Second Session: Human information processing and language usage.

First & Second Session: Biological foundation language

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First & Second Session: Speech perception. The Structure of Speech.

First & Second Session: Cognitive process in speech perception. First & Second Session: Research methods in speech perception. First & Second Session: Mental lexicon. Issues in the representation of meaning in memory. First & Second Session: Structure of the internal lexicon.

Assignments Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 1

Students are to read. Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 2 Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.1

Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 1, pp. 70 Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.4 Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 13 Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.14 Taylor (1976). Introduction to Linguistics. Ch. 11 Students are to read. Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 4, pp. 100. Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.5 Students are to read Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.5 Students are to read Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.5 Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 4, 102-109. Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.11 Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 5. Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.11.

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Tenth week

First & Second Session: Lexical access in memory.

Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 5.

Eleventh week

First & Second Session: Sentence interpretation comprehension.

Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 6. Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.2 and Ch. 3.

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Twelfth week

First & Second Session: Representation of discourse in memory. Thirteenth First & Second Session: week Schemata and discourse processing Fourteenth First & Second Session: week Language production.

Fifteenth Week

First & Second Session: Language development.

Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 7. Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch.6. Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. Ch. 8. Clark and Clark (1977). Psychology of Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Ch.6. Students are to read Carroll (1994). Psychology of Language. 9. Term-Papers Due

V. Evaluation: Attendance, homework & participation Mid-Term Exam HW Final Exam Total

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VI- Instructional Procedures: Lectures and discussion will be conducted in the class. Students are to submit their homework assignments required by the instructor. Students are to participate actively in the various classroom assignments VII. General Course Requirements: •

Students should arrive in class on time and prepared



Students are expected to attend class regularly.



Students have to read the main readings for that week’s topic.



Students will conduct a mid-term research paper. This research paper should be discussed, at various stages, with the instructor during his office hour or during some other mutually agreeable time.



No make-ups for quizzes will be allowed.

VIII. Required texts: Carroll, D. W. (1994). Psychology of Language. Pacific Grove, California: Books/Cole Publishing Company. Clark, H. H. and Clark. E. V. (1977). Psychology and Language. An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. New York: Harcout Brace Jovanovich. Tayor, I. (1976). Introduction to Psycholinguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 3

IX. References Psycholinguistics: General and Applied Aitchison, J. (1977). The articulate mammal: an introduction to psycholinguistics. New York: Universe Books. P37 .A37 1977. Berko Gleason, J. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (1993). Psycholinguistics. Harcourt Brace College Publishers. PN37 .P759 1993. (Note this is the first edition of our textbook!) Garman, M. (1990). Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. P37 .G33 1990. Gernsbacher, M.A.. (1994). Handbook of psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press. P37 .H335 1994. Harley, T. (1995). The psychology of language : from data to theory. Taylor & Francis. P37 .H337 1995. Kess, J.F. (199). Psycholinguistics : psychology, linguistics, and the study of natural language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. P37 .K48 1992. Gleitman, L. & Liberman, M. (1995). An Invitation to Cognitive Science V. 1. Language. (Check also under Osherson, Daniel (series editor). MIT Press. BF311 .I68 1995 Rosenberg, S. (1982). Handbook of applied psycholinguistics: major thrusts of research and theory. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum. P37 .H3 1982. Titone, R. & Danesi, M. (1985). Applied psycholinguistics: an introduction to the psychology of language learning and teaching. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. P53.7 .T58 1985. Language and the brain Honjo, I. (1999). Language viewed from the brain. New York: Karger. QP399 .H66 1999. Jensen, E.. (1998). Teaching with the brain in mind. Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. LB1060 .J46 1998. Obler, L. & Gjerlow, K. (1999). Language and the brain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. P132 .O25 1999. Paradis, M. (1995). Appects of Bilingual Aphasia. Oxford: Pergamon. RC425.A84 1995 Speech Perception Borden, G., Harris, K.S., & Raphael, L.J. (1994). Speech science primer: physiology, acoustics, and perception of speech. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins. P95 .B65 1994 Hollien, H. (1990). The acoustics of crime : the new science of forensic phonetics. New York: Plenum Press. HV8073 .H624 1990. Pickett, J.M. (1999). The acoustics of speech communication : fundamentals, speech perception theory, and technology. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. BF463 .S64 P5 1999

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Lexicon MacDonald, M.. (1997). Lexical representations and sentence processing. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press. P37.L45 1997. Schreuder, R. & Weltens, B. (1993). The bilingual lexicon. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. P118.B535 1993. Singleton, D. (1999). Exploring the second language mental lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. P118.2 .S556 1999. Sentence Processing Clifton, C. Jr., Frazier, L., & Rayner, K. (1994). Perspectives on sentence processing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. P37 .P475 1994. MacWhinney, Brain & Bates, Elizabeth. (1989). The crosslinguistic study of sentence processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. P295 .C76 1989 Discourse Singer, Murray. (1990). Psychology of language : an introduction to sentence and discourse processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. P37 .S46 1990. Feedle, R. O. (1977). Discourse production and comprehension. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. P302 .D56. Speech Production Poulisse, N. (1999). Slips of the tongue: speech errors in first and second language production. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. P118 .P646 1999 Levelt, W. (1993). Lexical access in speech production. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. P326.L3 78 1993. Reading Henderson, J., Singer, M., Ferreira, F. (1995). Reading and language processing. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. BF456.R2 R337 1995 Taylor, I. & Olson, D. (1995). Scripts and literacy: Reading and learning to read alphabets, syllabaries and characters. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer. P211 .S42 1995 Language Acquisition and Loss Bialystok, E. & Hakuta, K. (1994). In other words: the science and psychology of second-language acquisition. New York : BasicBooks. P118.2 .B52 1994. Bloom, P. (1994). Language Acquisition: Core Readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. P118 .L2536 1994 Fletcher, P. & MacWhinney, B. (1995). The handbook of child language. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. P118 .H347 1995 Seliger, H. & Vago, R. (1991). First Language Attrition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. P40.5 .L28 F57 1991 5

X. Internet sites for Psycholinguistics Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. www.kluweronline.com/issn/0090-6905/contents Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics http://www.genetics.gla.ac.uk/neil/index.html Psycholinguistics Arena: Provides professionals and researchers in the area of Psycholinguistics with information on the range of Book, Journal and Test publications. http://www.psycholinguisticsarena.com/ Slips of the Tongue: Windows to the Mind: by Victoria Fromkin (UCLA). How slips of the tongue relate to sounds of language, http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/ Bits about linguistics An important assumption underlying many psycholinguistics theories. http://human-brain.org/linguistics.html Applied Psycholinguistics Applied Psycholinguistics publishes original research papers on the psychological processes involved in language. It examines language development. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/ Psychology of Language Page of Links http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/POL/POL.htm Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics. Information · News · Events · Divisions ... Division of Psycholinguistics. Research outline of Psycholinguistics. Current projects . http://www.nici.kun.nl/Divisions/d1/ Psycholinguistics, York - Main page The Psycholinguistics Research Group Web Pages at the University of York. http://www.york.ac.uk/res/prg/

psycholinguistics on Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/p1/psycholi.asp

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