Class participation 15%

Mid-term exam 20%

Oral presentation     20% 

Written report 45%

(1) Books and on-line resource

Aitchison, J. (2004). The articulate mammal: An introduction to psycholinguistics. 4^th ed. London: Routledge.

        Carroll, D.W. (2008). Psychology of language. 5^th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. (PL)

Field, J. (2004). Psycholinguistics: The key concepts. London: Routledge.

Gazzaniga, M. & Mangun, G. (2014). The cognitive neurosciences. 5^th ed. MIT Press.

Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) (1994). Handbook of psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press.

        Gianfranco, Denes. (2011). Talking heads: The neuroscience of language. Taylor & Francis

Gleason, J.B. & Ratner, N.B. (ed.) (2012). Development of language. 8^th ed. New York: Macmillan.

Harley, T. (2014). The psychology of language: From data to theory. 4^th ed. New York, NY: Psychology Press. (TPL)

Jay, T. B. (2003). The psychology of language. New Jersey: Pearson Education.

        Sack, O. (1996). The man who mistook his wife for a hat. Summit Books. (MM)

        Ortega, Lourdes. (2009). Understanding second language acquisition. Oxford Univ Press.

Matthews, Danielle (ed.) (2014). Pragmatic development in first language acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Peterson, C. (2008). Research review: Narrative development 25-36 months. In L.M. Phillips (Ed.), Handbook of language and literacy development: A Roadmap from 0-60 Months.[online], pp. 1-6. London, ON: Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network. Available at: Handbook of language and literacy development

Rueckl, Jay G., Paz-Alonsoc, Pedro M., Molfese, Peter J., Kuod, Wen-Jui, Bicke, Atira, Frost, Stephen,…, and Frost, Ram. (2015). Universal brain signature of proficient reading: Evidence from four contrasting languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 112 (50) 15510–15515. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1509321112

Tomasello, M. (2000). The item-based nature of children's early syntactic development. In M. Tomasello and E. Bates (eds.), Language development: The essential reading, (pp. 169-186). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Traxler, Matthew J. (2012). Introduction to psycholinguistics: Understanding language science. John Wiley & Sons Inc. (IP)

(2) Films

BBC Brain story (VB 598.916248)

CSMI (https://www.indiana.edu/~cogfilms/): an online collection of movies showcasing various themes in cognitive science

        Human Language Series (VC 410 H918)