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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences : Language Sciences

Postgraduate Course: Psycholinguistics (LASC11038)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryA 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 27, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 169 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 25% essay based on group reading report, 25% experimental proposal, 50% essay
Feedback Week 5 will be devoted to formative feed-forward, specifically treating the topics of "Choosing an experimental method" and "Choosing a statistical method". This will involve discussions of how to design experiments to investigate specific sample research questions. This will be relevant to the assessed experimental design exercise which constitutes 25% of the course mark.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. identify experimental predictions arising from competing theories of language processing
  2. read the primary experimental literature critically
  3. compose an argument supported by experimental evidence
  4. pool information with colleagues in order to come to a joint view of the evidence
  5. design an experiment to test a psycholinguistic hypothesis and discuss possible interpretations of the results
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Group work in the context of research and analysis, as well as in presentation. Ability to engage with cutting-edge research, and build an argument based on experimental data.
Keywordspsycholinguistics,cognition,processing,production,comprehension
Contacts
Course organiserDr Christopher Cummins
Tel: (0131 6)50 6858
Email: ccummins@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk
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