Undergraduate Course: Psycholinguistics (LASC10035)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A wide-ranging introduction to psycholinguistics, looking at the processes underpinning a broad spectrum of linguistic abilities. |
| Course description |
This course introduces the intellectual discipline of psycholinguistics. Surveying central topics in normal adult language behaviour, from the recognition of speech sounds up to the identification of discourse moves, the course shows how theoretical models and experimental methods help us understand the swift, invisible processes that make us fluent users of language.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have completed at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above . We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 27,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Group Reading Report (25%)
Experiment proposal (25%)
Exam (50%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify experimental predictions arising from competing theories of language processing
- Read the primary experimental literature critically
- Compose an argument supported by experimental evidence
- Pool information with colleagues in order to come to a joint view of the evidence
- Design an experiment to test a psycholinguistic hypothesis and discuss possible interpretations of the results
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Psycholinguistics,psychology,cognition,competence |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Christopher Cummins
Tel: (0131 6)50 6858
Email: ccummins@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Lynne Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)50 9870
Email: Lynne.Robertson@ed.ac.uk |
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