COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LANGUAGE AND MIND

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 5046 LANGUAGE AND MIND ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

PSYCHOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜLAY DIRIK

Offered to

PSYCHOLOGY

Course Objective

This course aims at exploring how language can be studies as a natural science, and discussing how speech sounds, and other linguistic structures are acquired, mentally represented and processed in the mind.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   perceive the relationship between linguistics and cognitive psychology
2   perseive how to analyze linguistic in terms of natural science
3   acquire the fundamental building blocks of language such as phoneme
4   acquire the fundamental building blocks of language such as morpheme and phrase structure
5   understand how language is acquired
6   explain the stages of linguistic processing

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Briefing on the outcomes, mechanics and grading of the course Discussion on the curriculum
2 Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences: Language and cognition Cognitive Grammar
3 Universal Grammar: Basic tenets of universal grammar Competence and Performance
4 Linguistic Modularity: Localisation of language in the brain Language related centres in the brain
5 Language Acquisition: Language acquisition device Specific Language Impairments (SLI)
6 Phonology and Phonetics: Speech sounds Perception of speech Phonological Processing
7 Audio-visual Integration: Visual language and reading Lexical Access
8 Morphology: Morphemes, building blocks of language Morphological processing
9 Syntax I: Grammatical structure
10 Syntax II: Syntactic Processing
11 Semantics I: Basic semantic relations
12 Semantics II: Cognitive Semantics
13 Paper Presentations
14 Paper Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

O Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, & Rees-Miller, Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction.
Fromkin, V., Rodman, R. & Hyams, N. (2007). An Introduction to Language. 8th Edition. United Kingdom: Thomson & Wadsworth.
Chomsky, N. 2002. New horizons in the study of language and mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chomsky, N., A. Belletti, and L. Rizzi. 2002. On nature and language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O Grady, W., J. Archibald, M. Aronoff, and J. Rees-Miller. 2005. Contemporary linguistics: An introduction. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin s.
Starr, M.S., & Rayner, K. (2001). Eye movements during reading: Some current controversies. Trends in Cognitive Science, 5, 156-163.
Pinker S, Ullman MT. (2002). The past and future of the past tense. Trends in Cognitive Science 11, 456-463.
Gleason, J.B. & N. B. Ratner. 1998. Psycholinguistics. Orlando: Hartcourt Brace College Publishers

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation and discussion
3. Question and Answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm and Final exams

Assessment Criteria

1. Learning outcomes 1 -6 will be evaluated via papers prepared as midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2. Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3. Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gulay.dirik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Mon: 15.00-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 2 12 24
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 178

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.55555
LO.6455

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