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Psycholinguistics I. Course Description This course is meant to introduce students to the basic concepts and methods in psycholinguistics, including those in language acquisition, production and comprehension. This course will be organized in a series of topics that will be discussed one by one. II. The syllabus Introduction Linguistic principles Psychological mechanisms Perception of language The internal lexicon Sentence comprehension and memory Discourse comprehension and memory Production of speech and language Conversational interaction Early language acquisition Later language acquisition Processes of language acquisition Biological foundations of language Language, culture and cognition The future of psycholinguistics III. Suggested readings Aitchison, J. 1998. The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Routledge. Carrol, D. W. 1999. Psychology of Language. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Thomson learning Asia. Clark, H. H. Clark, E. V. 1977. Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Slobin, D. I. 1979. Psycholinguistics. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman. Prideau, G. D. 1985. Psycholinguistics: The Experimental Study of Language. New York: Guilford. 桂诗春，2000，《新编心理语言学》，上海：上海外语教育出版社。 7. 桂诗春，1991，《实验心理语言学纲要》，长沙：湖南教育出版社。 Topic 1 Introduction What is psycholinguistics? Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental processes involved in language comprehension, production and acquisition. Psycholinguistics is part of cognitive science: an interdisciplinary venture that draws upon the insights of psychology, linguistics, computer science, neurology, and philosophy Psycholinguistics is principally an integration of psychology and linguistics The two major questions asked by psycholinguists: 1）What knowledge of language is needed for us to use language? Tacit knowledge (how to perform various acts) vs explicit knowledge (what pro