Instituto de Enseñanza Superior Nº 7 - Venado Tuerto

Carrera: Inglés

Unidad Curricular: Psicolingüística

Curso: Segundo

Año Lectivo: 2018

Cantidad de horas semanales: 5

Prof. Titular: Javier Majul

Ejes: Visión Analítica

Eje1: Introduction.

The scope of psycholinguistics. Definitions.

The linguistic sciences. Branches.

Linguistic concepts: Opposite pairs. Glossary.

The designed features of language.

Language: Origin. Developing of writing.

History

Animal communication vs. human language.

Modern linguistic movements: Historicism, structuralism, functionalism, generativism.

Eje 2: Acquisition.

Developmental psycholinguistics.

Iconic and symbolic language.

Cooing:

Marginal and cannonical bubbling segmental phonemes. Suprasegmental ideomorphs, egocentric speech.

The birth of grammar, holophrastic stage. Two utterance stage, pivots slots. Phrase structure rules. Innateness.

Universal grammar.

Memory.

Children’s creativity. Stages of psycholinguistics.

Development. Rate and stage. Negatives and Wh-.

First language acquisition.

Foreign language learning. Methods.

Eje 3: Production.

Conceptualization. Syntactic + imagistic thinking formulation. Slips of the tongue. Spoonerisms.

Planning of higher level of speech. Sociolinguistics.

Articulation. Resonance. Co articulation. PET.

Self monitoring. Second language acquisition, mistakes, feedback, performance and competence.

Semantics: word formation process. Sense relations.

Sounds: sound patterns.

Morphemes: morphological processes. The morphology of derivation.

Eje 4: Comprehension.

Sounds: Phoneme restoration effect.

Voice onset timing.

Categorical perception.

Parsing.

Words: parallel distributed processing. Logogens.

Tip of the tongue. Bathtub effect. Schematic knowledge. Spreading activation. Networks. Morphology.

Sentences: Phrase structure. Transformational generative grammar. Syntax. Derivational theory of complexity. Automatic transition & networks. Garden pathing.

Texts: mnemonists. Exercises to check comprehension.

Eje 5: Dissolution

Neurolinguistics and language loss.

The evidence from aphasia: Neurolinguistics. Corpus callosum, hemispheres, motor cortex. Broca’s area. Wernicke’s area.

Aphasias: the surgical evidence. Aphasiology. Hemispheroctomy. Neuroplasticity. Canalization. Split brain operation.

Speech and language dissolution from non-damage brains.

Johnson’s Theory. Orton/Travis’ Theory. Stuttering and autism.

Inertial disorders. Down’s syndrome. Aging.

LTM – STM – Alzheimer’s disease.

Eje 6: Language and society.

Sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics and psycholinguistics.

Accent, dialect and idiolect. Pidgin Creole.

Bilingualism – code. Switching – diglossia.

Geographical variation.

Language: sex and gender.

Language and identity.

Language and culture.

The Whorfian hypothesis.

Linguistic relativism.

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