This course presents an overview of psycholinguistics.  The two branches of psycholinguistics are (1) developmental psycholinguistics, which addresses the question of how language is acquired during development, and (2) experimental psycholinguistics, which addresses the questions of how people understand language and how people produce language.  Psycholinguistics also studies a number of other issues, such as the representation of language in the mind, how language is remembered, and language disorders like dyslexia and aphasia.  Also of interest is whether and how monolingual and bilingual speakers differ in language processing, and whether native bilingual speakers differ from non-native bilingual speakers. 
Textbook:
A collection of articles which meet the objectives of the course, selected from the following references:
Garman, Michael.  1990.  Psycholinguistics.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
Harley, Trevor A.  1995.  The Psychology of Language:  From Data to Theory.  East Sussex, UK: Erlbaum (UK) Taylor & Francis.
Prideaux, Gary D.  1985.  Psycholinguistics:  The Experimental Study of Language.  New York:  The Guilford Press.
Scovel, Thomas.  1998.  Psycholinguistics.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.
Taylor, Insup with M. Martin Taylor.  1990.  Psycholinguistics:  Learning and Using Language. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall.

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