Introduction to psycholinguistics

The course provides an overview of and aims to establish a necessary level of knowledge in this research area.

Competences:
• Ability to do independent research in psycholinguistics
• Ability to identify interesting and theoretically significant problems in psycholinguistics

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Basic knowledge of psycholinguistic topics, including
• First language acquisition
• Language comprehension
• Language production
• Psychological experiments

Knowledge of the fundamentals of psycholinguistics, innateness of language, methods of experimental psychology.

• Carroll, David W. 2007. Psychology of language. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. Catalogue E-version
• Fernandez, Eva M., and Cairns, Helen Smith. 2010. Fundamentals of psycholinguistics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Catalogue
• Matthew Traxler & Morton Gernsbacher. 2006. Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Catalogue E-version
• Articles from the professional journals: Journal of Psycholinguistic research E-version, Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Memory and Language E-version, Brain and Language E-version, Cognition E-version, etc.).

Homework assignments and final term paper (50% / 50%).

Full professor of Linguistics at the University of Nova Gorica.

Bibliography:

1. PAVLIČ, Matic, STEPANOV, Arthur. 2023. Number mismatch effect and processing cataphora in a pro-drop language: The case of Slovenian. In: Formal Description of Slavic Languages 14: 293-314. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2. STEPANOV, Arthur, KODRIČ, Karmen Brina, STATEVA, Penka. 2020. The role of working memory in children's ability for prosodic discrimination. PloS One 15 (3), 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229857.
3. STEPANOV, Arthur, ANDREETTA, Sara, STATEVA, Penka, ZAWISZEWSKI, Adam, LAKA, Itziar. 2020. Anomaly detection in processing of complex syntax by early L2 learners. Second Language Research 36(3): 371-397.
4. STEPANOV, Arthur, PAVLIČ, Matic, STATEVA, Penka, REBOUL, Anne. 2018. Children's early bilingualism and musical training influence prosodic discrimination of sentences in an unknown language. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143(1): el1-el7. DOI: 10.1121/1.5019700.
5. STEPANOV, Arthur, STATEVA, Penka. Cross-linguistic evidence for memory storage costs in filler-gap dependencies with wh-adjuncts. Frontiers in Psychology. Sep. 2015, vol. 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01301.