Type of Credit: Elective
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Number of Students
The scope of this course is to reflect a wide range of topics within the domain of psycholinguistic inquiry, including issues related to natural language processing. Topics covered in this class include fundamental aspects of psycholinguistics such as neurolinguistics, speech perception, speech production, the mental lexicon and meaning, sentence processing, sentence comprehension, conversational discourse, and first language acquisition (i.e., language development in children).
In particular, students will learn how to design experiments using PsychoPy and how to construct a labeled and annotated corpus.
Notes:
1. 加退選課期間歡迎旁聽選課，加退選截止日過後課堂學生必須為正式選課生，本門課不收旁聽生。
Students who enroll in the class in an official capacity will receive a grade and course credit. Auditing or sitting in on the class is not permitted.
2. 2025年11月24日至12月7日之間開設的課程將以線上方式進行。
Courses offered between November 24 and December 7 will be conducted online.
能力項目說明
The scope of this course is to reflect a wide range of topics within the domain of psycholinguistic inquiry, including issues related to natural language processing. Topics covered in this class include fundamental aspects of psycholinguistics such as neurolinguistics, speech perception, speech production, the mental lexicon and meaning, sentence processing, sentence comprehension, conversational discourse, and first language acquisition (i.e., language development in children).
In particular, students will learn how to design experiments using PsychoPy and how to construct a labeled and annotated corpus.
| Week | Day | Lecture Topic, Readings, and Assignments |
| 1 | 9/2 |
Introduction to course and history lesson Reading: Chapter 1 |
| 2 | 9/9 |
Words and meaning Reading: Chapter 4 |
| 3 | 9/16 |
Words and meaning (Cont'd) [group presentation] Reading: Chapter 4 |
| 4 | 9/23 |
Sentence processing Reading: Chapter 5 |
| 5 | 9/30 |
Sentence processing (Cont'd) [group presentation] Reading: Chapter 5 Introduction to E-Prime, CLAN |
| 6 | 10/7 |
Sentence processing (Cont'd) [group presentation] Reading: Chapter 5 |
| 7 | 10/14 |
Text and discourse Reading: Chapter 6 |
| 8 | 10/21 |
Text and discourse (Cont'd) Reading: Chapter 6 |
| 9 | 10/28 |
Speech production Reading: Chapter 7 |
| 10 | 11/4 |
Speech production (Cont'd) Reading: Chapter 7 |
| 11 | 11/11 |
Early language development Reading: Chapter 8 |
| 12 | 11/18 |
Early language development (Cont'd) Reading: Chapter 8 2-3 page progress report on project DUE |
| 13 | 11/25 |
Speech produciton Reading: Chapter 3 |
| 14 | 12/2 |
Speech produciton (Cont'd) Reading: Chapter 3 |
| 15 | 12/9 |
Neurolinguistics Reading: Chapter 2 |
| 16 | 12/16 | Term Paper DUE (FINAL WEEK) |
Notes: The above syllabus is tentative. The syllabus in hard copy (the final version) would be distributed to the students on the first day of the course.
Class participation and discussion: 30%
Homework assignments: 20%
Presentation: 10%
1 term project: 40%
For the term project, you will select a topic which interests you and do background research on the issues involved and previous psycholinguistic research performed. You will then design an experiment to test some aspect(s) of the issues, and run a pilot study. Your project will include both a review of the literature, and a discussion of your study.
Required: Jean Berko-Gleason & Nan Bernstein-Ratner 1998. Psycholinguistics, Harcourt Brace. Please read the entire chapter for the beginning of each unit.
Supplementary readings: Matthew Traxler 2012. Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science. Wiley-Blackwell.
Gareth Gaskell 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press.