Psycholinguistics - 1st semester
Code
711131032
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Susana Mesquita de Deus Correia
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) be able to master the basic concepts and methodologies in the language production and comprehension areas;
b) be able to reflect on current interfaces between Psycholinguistics and other scientific areas;
c) to acquire knowledge about the main types of lexical access models, the factors that influence lexical access, as well as about oral production pathologies;
d) to be able to analyse linguistic pathological data.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Introduction
1.1. Defining the object of study of psycholinguistics;
1.2. Interfaces with other scientific areas
2. Models of language production and comprehension;
2.1. Underlying assumptions of sequential interactive and cascading models;
2.2. Components of a sequential model: from conceptualization to articulation;
2. 3. The lexical access;
2.3.1. Definition of ´internal lexicon´;
2.3.2. Factors that facilitate access to the lexicon;
2.3.3. Models of lexical access
3. Psycholinguistics and aphasia;
3.1. Definition of aphasia; clinical linguistics and aphasia: linguistic and anatomical description of major types;
3.2. Differentiating parameters of different types of aphasia;
3.3. The naming test by visual confrontation: cognitive components involved and associated deficits;
3.4. Paraphasic types of errors;
3.5. Language pathologies connected with problems of lexical access
Bibliography
Caldas, A C. 2000. A herança de Franz Joseph Gall: o cérebro ao serviço do comportamento humano, Amadora: MacGraw-Hill.
Caron, J. 1989. Précis de Psycholinguistique, Paris: PUF.
Crystal, D. 1981. Clinical Linguistics, London: Whurr Publishers.
Crystal, D. 1991.Introduction to language pathology, London: Whurr Publishers.
Teaching method
a) Lectures on program topics; b) classes focused on the analysis of pathological linguistic data; c) video analysis.
Evaluation method
The final grade will result from the average of two tests (30% each) and two short works (20% each).