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Cursus: TLRMV16101
TLRMV16101
Comparative Psycholinguistics
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeTLRMV16101
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
The aim of this course is to teach students how to understand, apply, analyze and evaluate various approaches to comparative psycholinguistic research as well as how to become capable of creating their own comparative paradigms. 
As such, this course explores the cognitive abilities underlying language. The course takes a comparative approach to the study of human linguistic and other cognitive capacities by considering the similarities and differences between various populations and various cognitive operations. Students will also be required to design a well-motivated experiment that is based on the currently open questions in the field of comparative psycholinguistics.
Inhoud
The course focuses on the comparative analyses of children, brain damaged patients and healthy individuals with respect to their linguistic capacities. In addition, we discuss the so-called special registers, that is to say expressions produced by healthy individuals which bear resemblance to the speech of individuals with aphasia or typically developing children. Students are also introduced to the main tenets of information theory and its application to language research as the theoretical basis for the proposed comparative approach.
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