Psycholinguistics

Code:

CL019

Acronym:

PSILIN

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	27	CL - Study Plan	2	-	6	4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To make students aware of basic, introductory aspects of psycholinguistics; to develop students’ critical reasoning.

Learning outcomes and competences

 

To enable the students to deal critically with topics related to this curricular unit and to write academic works with the rigor required at this level.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Distinguishing linguistics, psycholinguistics and psychology of language. 2. Language and cognition: definition and possible relations between both. 2.1. A practical approach of the language-cognition dichotomy. 3. Hesitation in discourse; psycholinguistic aspects. 3.1. Trasncribing oral discourse. 3.1.1. Orthographic transcription and its filtering effect. 3.1.2. Psycholinguistic “deafness” and hearer’s age. 4. Individual differences and information processing. 5. Introduction to the analysis of different practices of oral and written language. 5.1. Computer-mediated language.

Mandatory literature

Pinto, M. da G. C. ; Desenvolvimento e distúrbios da linguagem, Porto Editora, 1984
Goldman-Eisler, F. ; Psycholinguistics. Experiments in spontaneous speech, Academic Press
Pinto, M. da G. C. ; Saber viver a linguagem. Um desafio aos problemas de literacia, Porto Editora, 1998
Girolami-Boulinier, A. ; L’apprentissage de l’oral et de l’écrit, PUF, 1993
Hilgert, J. G.; A construção do texto “falado” por escrito. A conversação na Internet, D. Preti (Ed) - Fala e escrita em questão. 2.ª ed. São Paulo, Humanitas/FFLCH/USP, 17-55., 2001
Crystal, D.; Language and the Internet, Cambridge, 2001
Pinto, M. da G. L. C. ; Da Psicolinguística: um verbete que se tornou ensaio. , G. M. Rio-Torto et al. (Org.) - Estudos em homenagem ao Professor Doutor Mário Vilela, Porto, FLUP, 571-583, 2005
Odisho, E. Y.; A multisensory, multicognitive approach to teaching pronunciation, Linguística. Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto. Vol. 2: 3-28.Porto: Faculdade de Letras, 2007
Pinto, Maria da Graça L. C.; A linguagem ao vivo. Textos seleccionados.Organizado por Isabel Margarida Duarte, Olívia Figueiredo e João Veloso. , Porto: Faculdade de Letras da UP/Col. CAPFLUP, 2009
Leonor Scliar-Cabral; Introdução à Psicolinguïstica, São Paulo: Ática, 1991
Urbano, Hudinilson;; Variedade de planejamento no texto falado e no escrito, Humanitas, Publicações FFLCH/USP, Brasil, 1999. ISBN: 85 86087 56 1 (In D. Preti (org.) Estudos de língua falada. Variações e confrontos, 2.ª edição), 1999. ISBN: ISBN: 85 86087 56
Marcuschi, Luís Antônio; Da fala para a escrita. Atividades de retextualização, Cortez Editora, São Paulo, Brasil, 2001. ISBN: ISBN: 85 249 0771-1

Comments from the literature

Complementary bibliography will be supplied during the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theorical, Theorical-Pratical, Pratical and Tutorial Classes.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	66,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	42,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Number of absences from class, tutorials and laboratory practice must not exceed the number stated in the course regulations and other applicable regulations.

Calculation formula of final grade

Balanced mean of the works accomplished duting the semester.

Examinations or Special Assignments

In accordance with course regulations and other applicable rules.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with course regulations and other applicable rules.

Classification improvement

Students may improve their marks at the "Exame de Recurso" chosing the part of the evaluation where they find that they may get a better mark.

Observations

The evaluation of this curricular unit will be distributed without final exam. It will be composed by two papers.
The first paper, with the value of 40%, will take place in th middle of the semester. The second one, with the value of 60%,  will be accomplished following the pattern of the first one, in the last class of the semester. This change is due to the fact that the professor will be retired at the end of november.