PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

Foundations of language and how its study is apporached from different disciplines. Levels of analysis of language: from phonemes words and sentences.

Topic will include language comprehension and production at the different levels of analysis in different modalities (oral and written).

At the theoretical level a special emphasis will be devoted to the differences in the cognitive architecture and mechanisms on which different pyschological models are built.

At the empirical level a specific attention will be devoted to the different experimental methods that are apt to study specific linguistic processes.