• introducing students to the major approaches to psycholinguistics, with particular emphasis on recent developments in the area;
• stimulating interest in psychology and cognitive science students in the controversial issues of language-related psychological processes;
• encouraging students to acquire practical research experience in the field of psycholinguistics.

• understand and use psycholinguistic terminology;
• understand and discuss the main themes and concepts in a number of areas of current psycholinguistic theory;
• undertake independent psycholinguistic research.

Handbook of Psycholinguistics, San Diego: Academic Press.

Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (eds) (1993),

Psycholinguistics, Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds.) (1995),

Speech, Language, and Communication, San Diego: Academic Press.

• Bates, E. & MacWhinney, B. (1989) Functionalism and the Competition Model. In: MacWhinney, B. & Bates, E. (eds.), The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-73
• Frazier, Lyn (1995) Issues of Representation in Psycholinguistics. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 1-29

Additional reading:

• Chomsky, Noam (1993) On the Nature, Use, and Acquisition of Language. In: Goldman, A. (ed.) Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 511-534

Topic 2: Psychological Aspects of Speech Perception.
Required reading:

• Massaro, Dominic (1994) Psychological Aspects of Speech Perception. In: Handbook of Psycholinguistics. (ed. Gernsbacher, M. A.) San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 231-263
• Nygaard, Lynne & Pisoni, David (1995) Speech Perception: New Directions in Research and Theory. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press

Topic 3: Spoken Word Recognition.
Required reading:

• Lively, S., Pisoni, D., Goldfinger, S. (1994) Spoken Word Recognition: Research and Theory. In: Handbook of Psycholinguistics. (ed. Gernsbacher, M. A.) San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 265-301

Additional reading:

• Cutler, Anne (1995) Spoken Word Recognition and Production. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press

Topic 4: Sentence Comprehension.
Required reading:

• Tanenhaus, M. & Trueswell, J. (1995) Sentence Comprehension. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press

Additional reading:

• Clifton, C., Frazier, L., Rayner, K. (eds) (1994) Perspectives on Sentence Processing. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Mitchell, Don (1994) Sentence Parsing. In: Handbook of Psycholinguistics. (ed. Gernsbacher, M. A.) San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 375-409
• Wingfield, A. (1993) Sentence Processing. In: Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (eds) Psycholinguistics. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Topic 5: Structural Ambiguity Resolution.
Required reading:

• MacDonald, M., Pearlmutter, N., Seidenberg, M. (1994) Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution as Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. In: Perspectives on Sentence Processing (Ed. Clifton, C., Frazier, L., Rayner, K.) Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 123-153

Additional reading:

• Love, Tracy & Swinney, David (1996) Coreference Processing and Levels of Analysis in Object-Relative Constructions. In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Vol, 25, No. 1, pp. 5- 24
• Trueswell, John, Tanenhaus, Mi. (1994) Toward a Lexicalist Framework for Constraint-Based Syntactic Ambiguity Resoltuion. In: Perspectives on Sentence Processing (Ed. Clifton, C., Frazier, L., Rayner, K.) Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 155-179

Topic 6: Reading.
Required reading:

• Wolf, M. & Vellutino, F. (1993) A Psycholinguistic Account of Reading. In: Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (eds) Psycholinguistics. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Additional reading:

• Seidenberg, M. (1995) Visual Word Recognition: An Overview. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press

Topic 7: Speaking.
Required reading:

• Fowler, Carol A. (1995) Speech Production. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press

Additional reading:

• Bock, Kathryn (1995) Sentence Production: From Mind to Mouth. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press
• Cutler, Anne (1995) Spoken Word Recognition and Production. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press
• Fromkin, V. (1993) Speech Production. In: Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (eds) Psycholinguistics. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Topic 8: Picture-naming.
Required reading:

• Glaser, Wilhelm R. (1992) Picture Naming. In: Cognition, 42, pp. 61-105

Topic 9: Figurative Language.
Required reading:

• Gibbs, Raymond W. (1994) Figurative Thought and Figurative Language. In: Handbook of Psycholinguistics. (ed. Gernsbacher, M. A.) San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 411-446

Additional reading:

• Cacciari, C. & Glucksberg, Sam (1994) Understanding Figurative Language. In: Handbook of Psycholinguistics. (ed. Gernsbacher, M. A.) San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 447-477

Topic 10: Semantics and Lexicon.
Required reading:

• Hirsh-Pasek, K., Reeves, L., Golinkoff, R. (1993) Words and Meaning: From Primitives to Complex Organization. In: Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (eds) Psycholinguistics. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Additional reading:

• Clark, Herbert & Clark, Eve (1977) Quantificational Representations of Meaning. In: Psychology and Language (An Introduction to Psycholinguistics). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Prather, P. A., & Swinney, D. A. (1988) Lexical Processing and Ambiguity Resolution: An Autonomous Process in an Interactive Box. In: Small, S., Cottrell, G., Tanenhaus, M. (eds) Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp. 289-310
• Simpson, G. (1994) Context and the Processing of Ambiguous Words. In: Handbook of Psycholinguistics. (ed. Gernsbacher, M. A.) San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 359-374
• Simpson, G., & Burgess, C. (1988) Implications of Lexical Ambiguity Resolution for Word Recognition and Comprehension. In: Small, S., Cottrell, G., Tanenhaus, M. (eds.) Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp. 271-288
• Swinney, D. (1981) Lexical Processing During Sentence Comprehension: Effects of Higher Order Constraints and Implications for Representation. In: Myers, T., Laver, J. & Anderson, J. (eds.) The Cognitive Representation of Speech. North-Holland Publishing Company

Topic 11: Discourse.
Required reading:

• Clark, Herbert & Bly, B. (1995) Pragmatics and Discourse. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds.) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press
• Kintsch, Walter (1994) The Psychology of Discourse Processing. In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 721-739

Additional reading:

• Fletcher, Charles R. (1994) Levels of Representation in Memory for Discourse. In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 589-607
• Garrod, Simon C. & Sanford, Anthony J. (1994) Resolving Sentences in a Discourse Context: How Discourse Representation Affects Language Understanding. In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 675-698

Topic 12: Narrative Text Comprehension.
Required reading:

• Britton, Bruce K. (1994) Understanding Expository Text: Building Mental Structures to Induce Insights. In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 641-674

Additional reading:

• Sanford, Anthony J. & Garrod, Simon C. (1994) Selective Processing in Text Understanding. In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 699-719
• Van den Broek, Paul (1994) Comprehension and Memory of Narrative Texts: Inference and Coherence. In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 539-588

Topic 13: Language Acquisition.
Required reading:

• Bloom, Paul (1994) Recent Controversies in the Study of Language Acquisition. In: Gernsbacher, M. A. (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 741-779

Additional reading:

• Clark, Eve (1995) Language Acquisition: The Lexicon and Syntax. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds.) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press
• Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (1993) Language Development in Children. In: Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (eds.) Psycholinguistics. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Jusczyk, P. (1995) Language Acquisition: Speech Sounds and the Beginning of Phonology. In: Miller, J. & Eimas, P. (eds.) Speech, Language, and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press

Topic 14: Bilingualism.
Required reading:

• Snow, C. (1993) Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition. In: Gleason, J. B. & Ratner, N. B. (eds.) Psycholinguistics. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Topic 15: Experimental Study Reports.