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 Psiholingvistika

PSIHOLINGVISTIKA

(diplomski studij)

 

Nositelj kolegija:         prof. dr. Milena Žic Fuchs, red. profesor

Izvođači:                     dr. sc. Irena Zovko Dinković, docent

ECTS bodovi:               5

Jezik:                          engleski

Semestar:                   IX. (zimski)

Status:                       izborni

Oblik nastave: 4 sata predavanja

Uvjeti:                         položen ispit iz kolegija Kognitivna lingvistika

Ispit:                           pismeni

Cilj:                              Cilj je ovog kolegija uvesti studente u područje psiholingvistike i pružiti im uvid u osnovne pojmove i postavke o usvajanju, percepciji i razumijevanju jezika, kako bi se istražio međuodnos jezika, misli i kulture.

NASTAVNI PROGRAM:

Tjedan

Tema

1.

General information about the course. Introduction to the key concepts of psycholinguistics. Language and communication: is language specific to humans? (Field, ch. A1, B1, C1; Harley, ch. 1, ch. 3: pp. 45 – 60)

 

2.

Animal communication and human communication. Feral children and the critical age issue. (Field, ch. A2, B2, C2; Steinberg et al., ch. 4 & 5)

 

3.

The cognitive basis of language: how children learn language. The nature vs. nurture debate: behaviorism or an innate capacity for acquisition? Exercises. (Steinberg et al., ch. 1 & 10; Harley, ch. 3: pp. 70 – 77; ch. 4: pp. 91 – 109)

 

4.

Early semantic and syntactic development. Bilingualism and second language learning. (Harley, ch. 4: pp. 109 – 129, ch. 5; Steinberg et al., ch. 8)

 

5.

The biological basis of language: language and the brain. General brain structure and function. Language areas and their function. Localisation and lateralization. Exercises. (Field, ch. A3, B3, C3; Steinberg et al., ch. 11: pp. 309 - 330; Harley, ch. 3: pp. 60 – 70)

 

6.

Language disorders: aphasias and dyslexias. Other language-related disorders. Sign language. Exercises. (Field, ch. A12, B12, C12; Steinberg et al., ch. 2 & ch. 11: 330 – 338; Harley, ch. 3: pp. 60 – 70)

 

7.

REVISION

8.

The structure of sentences. Word meaning. Comprehension. Exercises. (Field, ch. A4, B4, C4; Steinberg et al., ch. 12: pp. 343 – 355; Harley, ch. 9 – 11)

 

9.

The structure and content of the 'mental lexicon': how humans learn and store words, how they find the right word and understand the words of others. Lexical retrieval. Exercises. (Field, ch. A5, B5, C5)

 

10.

Language and memory: long-term memory and short-term (working) memory. Long-term memory and the schema theory. Meaning representations. Inference. Exercises. (Field, ch. C6; A11, B11, C11; Harley, ch. 13)

 

11.

Language processing: bottom-up and top-down processing; serial and parallel processing. Perceptual and conceptual information. The role of context. Exercises. (Field, ch. A6, B6)

 

12.

Productive language skills: writing and speaking. Writing systems. The stages of writing. Errors in writing. Characteristics of speech and stages in the speaking process. Syntactic planning. Lexicalization. Speech errors. Exercises. (Field, ch. A7, B7, C7, A10, B10, C10; Harley, ch. 12)

 

13.

Receptive language skills: reading and listening. The whole-word approach vs. the decoding approach. Eye movement. Skilled and unskilled reading. Problems in the listening process. Categorical perception. Exercises. (Field, ch. A8, B8, C8; Steinberg et al., ch. 3; Harley, ch. 7 & 8)

 

14.

The social basis of language: the relationship between language, thought and culture. Is language necessary for thought, does it influence culture and does it affect our perception of society and the wold? (Steinberg et al., ch. 9; Harley, ch. 3: pp. 77 – 88)

 

15.

FINAL REVISION and COURSE ASSESSMENT. PREPARATION FOR THE EXAM.

 

 

NAČIN RADA:

Gradivo se predaje u cjelinama koje obrađuju ključne teme s područja psiholingvistike. Nakon većine cjelina studenti rješavaju vježbe koje provjeravaju s nastavnikom na satu. Od studenata se očekuje da pročitaju relevantna poglavlja i dijelove iz obavezne literature te im se savjetuje da pročitaju određene dijelove iz dodatne literature, što im pomaže u stjecanju znanja o području rada.

STUDENTSKE OBAVEZE I PROVJERA ZNANJA:

Studentima se preporučuje redovit dolazak na kolegij i aktivno sudjelovanje u nastavi. Sredinom semestra ponavlja se dotad obrađeno gradivo, a u zadnjem tjednu semestra ponavlja se cjelokupno gradivo te se studenti pripremaju za ispit. Studenti su dužni tijekom semestra riješiti i predati jedan zadatak koji je uvjet za dobivanje potpisa o odslušanom kolegiju. Na kraju studenti polažu pismeni ispit.

 

OBAVEZNA LITERATURA:

 

Field, John (2003) Psycholinguistics, London and New York: Routledge

 

Harley, Trevor (2001) The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory, Hove and New York: Psychology Press Ltd.

 

Steinberg, Danny, Hiroshi Nagata and David Aline (2001, 2nd ed.) Psycholinguistics: Language, Mind and World, Harlow: Longman

 

 

DODATNA LITERATURA:

 

Aitchison, Jean (1998, 4th ed.) The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics London and New York: Routledge

 

Aitchison, Jean (2003) Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, Oxford: Blackwell

 

Anderson, Stephen and David Lightfoot (2002) The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (selected chapters)

 

Burling, Robbins (2005) The Talking Ape: How language evolved, Oxford: Oxford University Press

 

Field, John (2005) Language and the Mind, London and New York: Routledge

 

Pinker, Steven (2007) The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, New York: Viking