SPCH 316 Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary subdiscipline of both cognitive psychology and linguistics. The study of human language processing, as it reflects and is reflected in mind and brain behavior, provides a unique way to understand human cognitive functions. This area of language science embraces the biological, neurological, mental, and memory-based aspects of language processing. Students engage in scientific research into the various methodologies used to describe production and perception of speech and language. Course work includes direct work with relevant scholarly literature and the design of a student-run psycholinguistic experiment into how the mind and language work together. Students ultimately discover the cognitive mechanisms and knowledge structures that underlie their own linguistic competence as speaker-hearers.