Sentence Processing and Psycholinguistics (U03146)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : PPL-4-SPP-PS

This course will describe and elucidate current theories of sentence comprehension in the light of evidence from a range of experimental techniques. The course aims to give an appreciation of the role of different sources of information relevant to the task, including grammatical, semantic and pragmatic information. Particular emphasis will be placed on the time-course of the use of the different sources of information in the comprehension process.

? Keywords : sentence structure; sentence comprehension; grammar; semantics

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Normally Psychology Methodology 1 (U00651) or equivalent.

? Special Arrangements for Entry : With permission of the Psychology 4 Course Organiser (Dr Martha Whiteman) and the student's Director of Studies, this course may be taken by honours-level Linguistic students.

Variants

? This course has variants for part year visiting students, as follows

Sentence Processing and Psycholinguistics (VS1) (Block 2 only)

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Psychology, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Block 2 only

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
02/11/2007	11:10	13:00	Room S.1, 7 George Square	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Friday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

After the course, students will:
- have an understanding of the notions of syntactic structure and syntactic ambiguity
- understand the claims of competing theories of sentence processing, including interactive, referential and modular approaches.
- appreciate a number of experimental techniques that are used to study the detailed time-course of written and spoken language comprehension.
- Understand and be able to evaluate the main claims of memory-load theories
- be able to evaluate theoretical claims on the basis of experimental evidence