PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
- Academic year
- 2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
- Course code
- LM5820 (AF:356060 AR:187151)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- M-PSI/04
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Course year
- 1
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
1. What we mean by a psycholinguistic level of explanation with respect to language as a cognitive system
2. Representation and processing in monolingual adult speakers
3. Language and implicit vs. implicit memory systems
4. Psycholinguistic perspectives on dialogue
5. Computational psycholinguistic models
6. Language processing in bilingual speakers
7. Language processing in second language speakers and the role of proficiency
8. Language processing in older adults
9. Language processing in speakers with aphasia
10. Experimental designs in psycholinguistics: from theory to practice
11. Research ethics for human subject research
Applying knowledge and understanding
Students will show that they can apply their theoretical and methodological knowledge of psycholinguistics to analyse, understand and critique all sections of a theoretical, empirical or computational research report; students will individually gain practice with an experimental presentation software package; students will collaborate on a practical project with a pre-assigned group of peers guided by the instructor and construct a template for an experiment from scratch. They will program a complete trial of the experiment and present their work as a group, giving the necessary theoretical and methodological background.
Pre-requirements
Contents
(2) Representation and processing in monolingual adult speakers
(3) Language and implicit vs. implicit memory systems
(4) Psycholinguistic perspectives on dialogue
(4) Computational models of language processing
(5) Language processing in bilingual speakers
(6) Language processing in second language speakers and the role of proficiency
(7) Language processing in older adults
(8) Language processing in speakers with aphasia
(9) Experimental designs in psycholinguistics: from theory to practice
(10) Research ethics for human subject research
Referral texts
Ferreira, V. S., & Bock, K. (2006). The functions of structural priming. Language and Cog. Proc., 21(7-8), 1011-1029.
Pickering, M. J., & Ferreira, V. S. (2008). Structural priming: a critical review. Psyc Bulletin, 134, 427–459.
Bock, J. K. (1986). Syntactic persistence in language production. Cog Psych., 18(3), 355–387.
Bock, K., & Loebell, H. (1990). Framing sentences. Cognition, 35, 1–39.
Potter, M. C., & Lombardi, L. (1998). Syntactic priming in immediate recall of sentences. JML, 38, 265–282.
Ziegler, J., & Snedeker, J. (2018). How broad are thematic roles? Evidence from structural priming. Cognition 179, 221–240.
Ziegler, J., Bencini, G., Goldberg, A., & Snedeker, J. (2019). How abstract is syntax? Evidence from structural priming. Cognition, 193.
Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (1998). The Representation of Verbs: Evidence from Syntactic Priming in Language Production. JML, 39, 633–651.
Bock, K., & Griffin, Z. M. (2000). The persistence of structural priming: Transient activation or implicit learning? JEP: General, 129, 177–192.
Hartsuiker, et al. (2008). Syntactic priming persists while the lexical boost decays: Evidence from written and spoken dialogue. JML, 58, 214–238.
Scheepers, C., Raffray, C. N., & Myachykov, A. (2017). The lexical boost effect is not diagnostic of lexically-specific syntactic representations. JML, 95, 102–115.
Tooley, K. M. (2020). Contrasting mechanistic accounts of the lexical boost. Mem. & Cogn.
Chang, et al. (2006). Becoming syntactic. Psych Review, 113, 234–272.
Chang, et al. (2000). Structural priming as implicit learning: A comparison of models of sentence production. J. of Psycholing Research, 29, 217–229.
Chang, F., Janciauskas, M., & Fitz, H. (2012). Language adaptation and learning: Getting explicit about implicit learning. Language and Linguistics Compass, 6, 259–278.
Pickering, M. J., & Garrod, S. (2004). Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue. BBS, 27(2), 169–190.
Pickering, M. J. (2006). The dance of dialogue. Psychologist, 19, 734–737.
Ferreira, V. S. (2019). A Mechanistic Framework for Explaining Audience Design in Language Production. Annual Review of Psychology.
Branigan, H. P., Pickering, M. J., & Cleland, A. A. (2000). Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Cognition, 75, B13–B25.
Branigan, H. P., &McLean, J. F. (2016).What children learn from adults’ utterances: An ephemeral lexical boost and persistent syntactic priming in adult–child dialogue. JML, 91, 141–157.
Tooley, K. M., & Bock, K. (2014). On the parity of structural persistence in language production and comprehension. Cognition, 132, 101–136.
Shin, J. A., & Christianson, K. (2012). Structural Priming and Second Language Learning. Language Learning, 62, 931–964.
Van Gompel, R. P. G., & Arai, M. (2018). Structural priming in bilinguals. Bilingualism, 21.
Hartsuiker, et al. (2016). Cross-linguistic structural priming in multilinguals: Further evidence for shared syntax. JML, 90.
Hwang, H., Shin, J. A., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2018). Late bilinguals share syntax unsparingly between L1 and L2: Evidence From Crosslinguistically similar and different constructions. Language Learning, 68.
Flett, S., Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (2013). Are non-native structural preferences affected by native language preferences? Bilingualism, 16.
Favier, S., et al. (2019). Proficiency modulates between- but not within language priming.
The bibliography is subject to small changes during the semester, depending also on student interests and input. All papers and the calendar for the course are available on moodle. Check moodle for updates and changes.
Assessment methods
2. A project to be completed during the course of the semester working in preassigned groups of 2-10 peers and a final oral presentation to the entire class. [See below for details on grade breakdown.]
1. Written exam: maximum 30 points. Grade breakdown is as follows: essay questions are 7,5 points each; six multiple choice questions are 1 point, one multiple choice question is 1,5. Wrong answers in the multiple choice section result in points off.
2.Group project: maximum 30 points. Assessment is based on: quality of the material sent in to the instructor and shared with peers; quality of the final presentation. Individual contributions to the group project: 1-3 points based on the quantity and quality of the work contributed to steering the group and accomplishing the tasks.
Teaching methods
Teaching language
Further information
Ca Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with
mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.
Type of exam
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development