LINGUIS 201 : Psycholinguistics

This course introduces students to psycholinguistics, giving special attention to first and second language acquisition, literacy, mental models, neural networks, and the representation of meaning. It explores the dominant theories in the field, such as language universals, conceptual blending, and connectionism. This course also provides an overview of the relation between mind and language. The format will be a seminar, with significant board work. Student assessment will be in the form of quizzes, a mid-term, and a final exam.