 Study note for today’s lecture
 Reading for next week

Course Requirements and Syllabus

 is a marriage of psychology and linguistics.
 Linguistics studies language as a formal system –how is language structured? What are rules for organizing sounds into words, words into sentences? Its three main branches are phonology, semantics, and morphology.

 Psycholinguistics is the study of language behavior: how people learn and use language to communicate ideas.
Central topics: how is language perceived, represented, understood, and remembered in the mind and brain?
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It adopts an experimental approach.

Adults –Normal and Abnormal
(e.g., normal readers and dyslexics)
Children – Normal and Abnormal
(e.g., normal and stuttering)
Participants, subjects

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语言学是一门研究人的语言结构和规律的学科。

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Objectives:
1. To promote critical thinking of theoretical and methodological issues in psycholinguistic research
2. To bring students to an understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of modern psycholinguistic inquiries
3. To develop students' skills necessary for high-quality paper presentation

LING2034 Psycholinguistics
Syllabus
Week 1 Sep. 8
Overview of course requirements and syllabus
Week 2 Sep. 15
What Is Psycholinguistics?
Week 3 Sep. 22
Word Recognition: The Mental Lexicon I
Week 4 Sep. 29
Word Recognition: The Mental Lexicon II
Week 5 Oct. 6
Phonological Processing in Word Recognition
(Topics for the midterm essay will be announced.)
Week 6 Oct. 13
Sentence Comprehension: Syntactic and Semantic Processing

LING2034 Psycholinguistics
Syllabus (continued)
Week 7 Oct. 20
Reading week
Week 8 Oct. 27
Midterm essay
Week 9 Nov. 3
Language and the Brain I: Lesion Study
Week 10 Nov. 10
Language and Thought
Week 11 Nov. 17
Language and the Brain II: Functional Brain Imaging Study
Week 12 Nov. 24
How Children Learn to Read
Week 13 Dec. 1
Summary of the semester’s teaching

Instructor
Dr. L. H. Tan
Office: 115 Main Building
Office phone: 2241-5877
Email: tanlh@hku.hk
Office hour: by appointment.
3A, 2 U Drive, Joint Laboratories for
Language and Cognitive Neuroscience
2241-5873, 2241-5877

Teaching Assistants
(1) Miss Claudia Wong
Office: 242 MB
Email: claudiaw@graduate.hku.hk
Tutorials: TBA
(2) Mr Jie Zhuang
Office: 254 MB
Email: zhuangj@hkusua.hku.hk
Tutorials: TBA

Course Materials:
1. Rayner K., & Pollatsek A. The Psychology
of Reading. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall, 1989.
(Available in the University Bookstore. The Main Library has at least one copy of the book.)
2. Reading materials will be distributed by the lecturer.

The course website: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/m_staff.html
Click the instructor’s name, and then the course name. The course website will include downloadable materials that are helpful if you miss a lecture, lose your notes, or are reviewing for a test. Handouts distributed in class and slides used during lectures can also be found from the website.

Evaluation and Grading
 Class participation: counting as 20% of your grade.
 One midterm essay (open book): 40% of your grade. (The midterm essay will be written during the class. Topics of 3 possible essays will be announced in advance; you will need to prepare for all of them, since you won't know which one will be actually chosen by the lecturer.)
 One term paper: 40%. (Topics of 5 possible essays will be announced; you will need to choose
1 and write a paper of 4-5 pages.)