Undergraduate Course: Sentence Processing and Psycholinguistics (PSYL10061)
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 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | When we encounter a written or spoken sentence, what kinds of processes do we use to understand its meaning? This course aims to answer this question in the light of evidence from a wide range of experimental techniques, including eye-tracking, EEG recording and reading time measurement. Questions that will be covered are all current topics under debate in the literature, and they include: What is the role of prediction in sentence processing? How do children and adults differ in the way they process ambiguous sentences? How does sentence processing interact with the working memory processes? To what extent do we follow grammatical rules when we interpret a sentence?
|
| Course description |
Not entered
|
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Degree major in Psychology and passes in psychology courses at least to the equivalent of junior honours level in Edinburgh. Prior agreement with the 4th Year Honours Course Organiser |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Have an understanding of the notions of syntactic structure and syntactic ambiguity.
- 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 theoretical claims and experimental evidence surrounding the use of grammatical and non-grammatical information in sentence comprehension.
|
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
With permission from the Psychology 4 Honours Course Organiser and the student's Personal Tutor, this course may be taken by honours-level Linguistic students. |
| Keywords | sentence structure; sentence comprehension; grammar; semantics |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Patrick Sturt
Tel: (0131 6)51 1712
Email: patrick.sturt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Stephanie Fong
Tel: (0131 6)51 3733
Email: S.Fong@ed.ac.uk |
|
|
University Homepage