Browse Hierarchy LANG5007: Language and the Mind

The module explores the relationship between language and the mind. It aims to introduce students to central issues in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics and to the methods which researchers use in carrying out research in these fields. Students will have the opportunity to draw on a number of topics including non-literal language processing, language development in infancy and early childhood, cognitive processing in reading, the neural bases of bilingualism, and cognitive processing of sign language. A number of empirical studies from a wide spectrum of geographic and linguistic contexts will be explored.