APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° Year - Curriculum Curriculum A - Clinico - Riabilitativo
Teaching Staff: Vivian Milagros DE LA CRUZ
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: L-LIN/01 - GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course will introduce students to the general principles of Psycholinguistics and to examples of applied research in the field. Particular attention will be devoted to the cognitive processes underlying the comprehension and production of language and the neuroanatomical correlates of linguistic processing, in monolinguals, bilinguals and in adult second language learners.


Detailed Course Content

The course will address the following topics:

  • The study of language from the perspective of General Linguistics
  • The study of language as a cognitive faculty
  • Psycholinguistic theories
  • Linguistic processing in mono and bilingual speakers
  • The neural bases of linguistic processing
  • The principal pathologies that alter linguistic processing
  • Examples of applied research in the field, and in particular, neurocomputational models of linguistic and cognitive development

Textbook Information

  1. Cacciari, C., La Psicologia del Linguaggio, Il Mulino, 2011 (seconda edizione)

  2. Additional readings for the course will be made available on Studium.