Module Details
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Title PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 2
Code ENGL283
Coordinator Dr KN Simms
English
Knsimms@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2022-23 Level 5 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

The aim of this module is to explore questions concerning the relationship of language to consciousness. This will entail addressing questions concerning the nature of language in its evolutionary, acquisitional, developmental and degenerative stages, and the nature of human language as compared to non-human communication systems, such as those used by computers, apes, and other animals.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will demonstrate awareness of the main issues in the psychology of language, and in the philosophy of mind in relation to language.

(LO2) Students will demonstrate ability to give critical accounts of a range of human and non-human communication systems in their various stages of development.

(LO3) Students will demonstrate awareness of the practical and ethical considerations which arise from engaging with human language in its various stages of development, and with non-human communication.

(LO4) Students will be able to articulate LO1-LO3 above in an appropriate academic style.

(S1) Adaptability

(S2) Problem solving

(S3) Organisation

(S4) Communication

(S5) Ethical awareness

Syllabus
 

Typically the syllabus is arranged into three sections: acquisitive, comparative and degenerative.

Section A: Language Evolution, Acquisition and Development
• Innateness versus Behaviourism?
• Evolutionary Linguistics
• Child Language Acquisition

Section B: Non-Human Communication
• Computers
• Non-Primate Animals
• Chimpanzees
• Bonobos

Section C: Degenerative Linguistics
• Aphasia
• Schizophrenia
• Dementia

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching method: 90-minute lecture
Description: An introduction to each of the topics indicated in the syllabus outline
Attendance recorded: No

Teaching method: 90-minute workshop
Description: Discussion of material arising from the preceding lecture
Attendance recorded: Yes

Scheduled directed student hours: 33
Unscheduled directed student hours: 117

Notes:
Description of how self-directed learning hours may be used: Workshop preparation; researching and writing essays

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 16.5

 16.5

         33
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 117
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Three essays, each of c. 1,500 words. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment.  0    100       

Recommended Texts
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