PSYC374
Psychology of Language
Subject code
PSYC
Course Number
374
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
T. Kahan
Course Long Title
Psychology of Language
Description
This course examines language from psychological and linguistic perspectives. Topics covered include language acquisition, advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism, the relationship between language and thought, speech perception, word recognition and semantics, sentences and discourse, language production and slips of the tongue, the biological bases of language and language disorders, and the future of languages (focusing on language extinction). Prerequisite(s): PSYC 101, and PSYC 261 or ED/PY 262. Recommended background: PSYC 222 or 230.
Writing Credit
No writing credit
GEC This Course Belongs To
-
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years