Psycholinguistics

The goal of the course is to familiarize students with the basic knowledge of the psychology of language (comprehension, production, acquisition of language), organization of the language function in the brain and children's acquisition of language

Acquired competences:
• Ability to recognize interesting topics in the area of psycholinguistics
• Ability to search, read and critically review the psycholinguistic literature

Linguistics courses at this program.

· Introduction to psycholinguistics
· Psychological foundations of comprehension, production and acquisition of language
· Speech processing
· Lexical access
· Sentence comprehension
· Sentence production
· Language acquisition by children

• Basic knowledge of psycholinguistics and innateness of language
• Basic knowledge of language comprehension and production
• Basic knowledge of language acquisition by children

• Stepanov, A., Pavlič, M., Pušenjak Dornik, N., Stateva, P.2023. JERA - JEzikovno RAzumevanje : test sposobnosti razumevanja stavkov v slovenskem jeziku. V Novi Gorici: Založba Univerze. E-version
• Stepanov, A., Pavlič, M., Pušenjak Dornik, N., Stateva, P. 2023. JERA : test sposobnosti razumevanja stavkov v slovenskem jeziku (programska oprema). Nova Gorica: Univerza. E-version
• Pavlič, M., Stepanov, A. 2020. Psiholingvistični vidiki procesiranja oziralnih odvisnikov v slovenščini. Slavistična revija : časopis za jezikoslovje in literarne vede, 68(4), str. 543-562. E-version
• Koritnik, B., Kočevar, M., Knific, J., Tavčar, R., Šprah, L. 2004. Prostorski in verbalni delovni spomin : študija s funkcijskim magnetnoresonančnim slikanjem. Psihološka obzorja. 13(2), str. 47-60, 136-138. E-version
• Ozbič, M. 1998. Akustična spektralna FFT analiza samoglasniškega sistema slovenskega jezika pri tržaških Slovencih. Defektologica slovenica : revija defektologov in specialnih pedagogov Slovenije 6(1), str. 22-51.
• Pinker, Steven. 2010. Jezikovni nagon. Ljubljana: Modrijan. [prevod A. E. Skubic] Catalogue
• Fernandez, Eva M. in Cairns, Helen Smith. 2010. Fundamentals of psycholinguistics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Catalogue
• Golden, Marija. 1996. O jeziku in jezikoslovju. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta. Kranjc, Simona (1990). Razvoj govora predšolskih otrok. Ljubljana: Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete. Catalogue

• Regular attendance and active participation at the lectures and exercises 20 %
• up to 3 homework assignments 10 %
• written or oral final exam based on the entire content of the course 70 %

Full professor of Linguistics at the University of Nova Gorica

Selected publications:

• STEPANOV, Arthur, PAVLIČ, Matic, PUŠENJAK, Nika, STATEVA, Penka. JERA - JEzikovno RAzumevanje : test sposobnosti razumevanja stavkov v slovenskem jeziku. V Novi Gorici: Založba Univerze, 2023.
• PAVLIČ, Matic, STEPANOV, Arthur. Number mismatch effect and processing cataphora in a pro-drop language : the case of Slovenian. V: BISKUP, Petr (ur.). Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021. Berlin: Language Science Press, cop. 2023. Str. 293-314
• STATEVA, Penka, ANDREETTA, Sara, REBOUL, Anne Colette, STEPANOV, Arthur. Bilingual children's use of the Maximiza Presupposition' principle. Glossa. 2021, vol. 6, iss. 1, str. 1-27.
• STEPANOV, Arthur, KODRIČ, Karmen Brina, STATEVA, Penka. The role of working memory in children's ability for prosodic discrimination. PloS one. Mar. 2020, vol. 15, no. 3, str. 1-16.
• STEPANOV, Arthur, ANDREETTA, Sara, STATEVA, Penka, ZAWISZEWSKI, Adam, LAKA, Itziar. Anomaly detection in processing of complex syntax by early L2 learners. Second language research. 2020, vol. 36, iss. 3, str. 371-397.
• STEPANOV, Arthur, PAVLIČ, Matic, STATEVA, Penka, REBOUL, Anne. Children's early bilingualism and musical training influence prosodic discrimination of sentences in an unknown language. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2018, vol. 143, iss. 1, str. el1-el7.
• 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, 19 str.