This Seminar is available to all students. No background knowledge is required.  Intended for students interested in Psycholinguistics, Processing and/or Experimental Linguistics.

The first aim of the course is to discuss how the speaker’s mental lexicon is organized – in other words, how words are stored in long-term memory – and how words are retrieved from the mental lexicon during communication. The second aim of the course is to discuss the basics of sentence processing: how novel sentences are understood by listeners in real-time, how early the parser takes into account grammatical information and how such information can expedite sentence comprehension. The course is primarily geared towards linguistics and psychology majors.