WK         Content                                                          

1              Scope of psycholinguistic research               

2              Psychological mechanisms                           

3              The science of language                               

4              Perception for language                                 

5              Perception for language                                

6              Visual word recognition

7              Visual word recognition                                                        

8              Mid-term Exam                                           

9              How is speech planned and produced

10           TBA       

11            Language development

12            Language development

13            TBA

14            Oral presentation & discussion

15            Oral presentation & discussion

16            Paper due

Attendance & Class participation  30%

Mid-term exam                              15%

Oral presentation                          10% 

Written report                                35%

(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-C)

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.

Gleason, J.B. & Ratner, N.B. (eds.) (1998). Psycholinguistics, 2^nd ed. Orlando: Harcourt Brace.

Harley, Trevor A. (2010). Talking the Talk: Language, Psychology and Science. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

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

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

Kennison, Shelia M. (2019). Psychology of language: Theory and applications. Macmillan. (PL-K)

Ludden, David C. (2015). The psychology of language: An integrated approach. SAGE Publications (TPL-L)

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

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

Menn, Lise, & Dronkers, Nina F. (2015). Psycholinguistics: Introduction and Applications, 2^nd ed. Plural Publishing.

Rueckl, Jay G., Paz-Alonsoc, Pedro M., Molfese, Peter J., Kuo, 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

Sedivy, Julie. (2019). Language in mind: An introduction to psycholinguistics. Sinauer Associates.

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. (2023). Introduction to psycholinguistics: Understanding language science, 2^nd ed. John Wiley & Sons.

Warren, Paul. (2013). Introducing psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. (InPsy)

(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)

The Brain: Our universe within memory (Discovery Channel) (大腦與記憶 VB 508 465 V. 152)