Psycholinguistics
Code
73213109
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
João Marques da Costa
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Português e Inglês
Objectives
By the end of this seminar, students will:
a) Master basic concepts of current debates in psycholinguistics, in the generativist framework.
b) Reflect on the principles of biolinguistics.
c) Deepen their knowledge on relevant literature in the domains of the acquisition of L1, L2, Processing and Parametric Variation, framing it in the ongoing debates on the interaction between the components involved in the use and processing of human language.
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Subject matter
The generativist paradigm.
From generativism to biolinguistics.
The third factor in language design.
Biolinguistics - the role of syntactic knowledge
Language Variation in the biolinguistics paradigm.
Language development - the role of processing and routines
Language development and language impairment.
Linguistic knowledge in L2 development.
Syntactic knowledge - acquisition and variation.
Bibliography
The Biolinguistic Enterprise:
New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty (2013) Oxford University Press
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boecks
Phillips, C. (2013). On the nature of island constraints. I: Language processing and reductionist accounts. In J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (eds.), Experimental syntax and island effects, pp. 64-108. Cambridge University Press.
Phillips, C. (2013). On the nature of island constraints. II: Language learning and innateness. In J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (eds.), Experimental syntax and island effects, pp. 132-157. Cambridge University Press
Sprouse, J. & Lau, E.F. (2013). Syntax and the Brain. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax. Cambridge University Press, UK.
(other titles distributed during the course)
Teaching method
Lectures.
Paper presentation by students.
Discussion of research projects in class.
Evaluation method
Paper for submission and oral presentation of research project for the paper.