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2024 Spring

LANGUAGE AND THE MIND - PSY302/PSY502/1 Spring 2024


Course
Eva Eckert
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. INTRODUCTION: HUMAN LANGUAGE and MIND: THINKING and SPEAKING

INTRODUCTION: HUMAN LANGUAGE and MIND: THINKING and SPEAKING

2. The origins

The origins

3. How humans invent language

Class 3 How humans invent language

4. Language impairment of genetic and non-genetic nature

5. Mapping language in the brain

Mapping language in the brain

6. Language learning strategies of infants

Babies learning from the language input: Sounds

7. Sounds, phonemes and symbols

Sounds, phonemes and symbols

8. Infants' language acquisition: Learning words

Infants' language acquisition

9. Words and pieces: The morphology of words

The morphology of words

10. LANGUAGE DIVERSITY

The World Atlas of Language Structures Language universals and learning biases

11. Diversity: Words and culture

12. Diversity: Being bilingual

13. FINAL exam and student presentations

FINAL exam and student presentations

14. Student Projects

Student Projects

15. Patterns, grammar and LEARNING

16. MEMORY

CULTURAL DIVERSITY: Being bilingual

17. Lesson 14: Communication and reading intentions

Communication and reading intentions

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