Psychology of Language

Code:

P400

Acronym:

PL

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	169	Official Curricular Structure 2007/2008	2	-	4	36	108

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The learning outcomes are:

To know and understand the main concepts, methods and problems of the Psychology of Language.

To be able to interpret, analyze and summarize domain-specific texts, of initial or intermediate level of specialization, and to establish relationships between learned materials and real life situations where their application might be relevant.

Program

1. Introduction to language
Perspectives in the study of language. The trilogy language, communication, and cognition.
Language design features. Language as a multicomponential system.

2. Fundamentals of voice and speech production
Glotic, subglotic and supraglotic components. The diversity of phones.
Voicing, manner and place of articulation. Coarticulation and articulatory variability.

3. Introduction to speech perception
The science of speech and the problems of segmentation and lack of invariance. Categorical perception.
Audio-visual integration. Motor theory and auditory theories.

4. Mental lexicon and comprehension
Word identification. Phonemic restauration effect.
Parsing and sentence comprehension. Discourse and sentence comprehension.

5. Language acquisition
Theories of language acquisition. Main phases.

6. Reading and writing
Morpho-syllabic, syllabic and alphabetic writing systems.
Models of expert readers. Learning to read.

7. Dyslexias and aphasias
Acquired disorders of language and their biological basis.
Acquired disorders of reading and speech. Neurocognitive models of language.

Mandatory literature

Harley Trevor A.; The psychology of language. ISBN: ISBN 0-86377-867-4
Wilson Robert A. 340; The^MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences. ISBN: 0-262-73124-X
Anderson John R.; Cognitive psychology and its implications. ISBN: ISBN 0-7167-3678-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures.

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology > Experimental psychology
Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Cognitive science

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	26,00
	Total:	-	0,00