Course Description
This course is an introduction to the psychological study of language, which is calledpsycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics is part of the larger field of cognitive science, and integrates
methods from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience. The
questions we are mainly interested in are: How is language being used? Which cognitive processes
are involved when we use language in spoken and written form? How are these processes similar or
different between languages? How does language ability develop in children? Which brain
mechanisms underlie language?
CUHK
PSYC3430 Psychology of Language