239941 Introduction to Psycholinguistics (S) (WiSe 2012/2013)

The topic of psycholinguistics is the investigation of the mental processes involved in human language use. This seminar will present a tableau of current approaches to the production and processing of spoken and written language. In the first part the approaches will concern primarily the human biological foundations of language and the acquisition of a first language in infants. An important side topic will be the examination of language impairments. In the second part we will analyze the processing of linguistic signals (including gestural signals) on several levels (starting with the lexical level and moving up toward the textual level). We will focus on a separate treatment of spoken and written utterances; the latter will be investigated in the framework of reading research and its different approaches (serial, parallel etc.). On a semantic/pragmatic level we will look into the representation of semantic knowledge and cognitive patterns of inference.

Requirements for participation, required level

BaAngBM2 completed