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Research Seminar in Language Processing

General details of the subject

Mode
Face-to-face degree course
Language
English

Description and contextualization of the subject

This course is aimed at students who are especially interested in language processing mechanisms.



During this course we will mostly focus on the time-course of language comprehension processes in monolingual and bilingual populations. More precisely, we will present some recent works exploring morphosyntactic processing. We will also show which factors second language processing depends on (i.e. age of acquisition, proficiency level, linguistic distance...etc.). During the course the students will learn about the main experimental methods used in order to investigate those topics.

Teaching staff

NameInstitutionCategoryDoctorTeaching profileAreaE-mail
ZAWISZEWSKI , ADAMUniversity of the Basque CountryProfesorado AgregadoDoctorBilingualGeneral Linguisticsadam.zawiszewski@ehu.eus

Competencies

NameWeight
Comprender las motivaciones de los diferentes resultados obtenidos en la investigación sobre el procesamiento del lenguaje.25.0 %
Ser capaz de construir hipótesis nuevas a partir de la comparación e interpretación crítica de hipótesis ya existentes.25.0 %
Detectar cuestiones de interés a investigar mediante métodos psicolingüísticos.25.0 %
Diseñar posibles estudios para responder cuestiones concretas de interés en el campo.25.0 %

Study types

TypeFace-to-face hoursNon face-to-face hoursTotal hours
Lecture-based15015
Applied classroom-based groups10010
Applied laboratory-based groups505
Applied computer-based groups04545

Training activities

NameHoursPercentage of classroom teaching
Case studies5.0100 %
Expositive classes15.0100 %
Group discussion5.0100 %
Handling experimental equipment and facilities5.0100 %
Student's personal work45.00 %

Assessment systems

NameMinimum weightingMaximum weighting
Attendance and participation30.0 % 60.0 %
Continuous evaluation40.0 % 70.0 %

Ordinary call: orientations and renunciation

This evaluation system is designed for face-to-face teaching and will be adapted in the event that we enter a new state of health emergency and have to go to virtual teaching. In this case, the updated version of the program and the new evaluation system will be posted in the Egela virtual classroom.



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Este sistema de evaluación está diseñado para la docencia presencial y será adaptada en el caso de que entremos en un nuevo estado de emergencia sanitaria y tengamos que pasar a docencia virtual. En tal caso, se colgará en el aula virtual Egela la versión actualizada del programa y el nuevo sistema de evaluación.

Temary

Introduction to behavioral and electrophysiological experiments.

Experimental design

Introduction to statistical analyses (basic concepts)

Bibliography

Compulsory materials

Warren, P. (2013). Introducing Psycholinguistics. New York: Cambridge University Press.



Sedivy, J. (2014). Language in Mind: An introduction to Psycholinguistics. Sinauer Associates



Norcliffe, E. & Konopka, AE. (2015). Vision and language in cross-linguistic research on sentence production. in RK Mishra, N Srinivasan & F Huettig (eds), Attention and Vision in Language Processing. Springer, pp. 77-96.



Konopka, AE. & Brown-Schmidt, S. (2014). Message encoding. in V Ferreira, M Goldrick & M Miozzo (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language Production. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 3-20.

Basic bibliography

Traxler, Matthew. 2012. Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding language

science. Willey-Blackwell.

In-depth bibliography

Altmann, G.T.M. (2006). History of Psycholinguistics. In K. Brown (ed). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition), pp., 257-265. Elsevier.



J.F., Kroll & A.M.B. De Groot (eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 308-325). New York: Oxford University Press.

Journals

Journal of Memory and Language



Brain and Language



Language, Cognition and Neuroscience



Bilingualism: Language and Cognition



Frontiers in Psychology



Memory and Language



Applied Psycholinguistics



Trends in Cognitive Sciences



Cognition

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