This elementary to intermediate level course will provide the student with a basic knowledge of psycholinguistics, a research domain on the intersection of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, by looking at language comprehension, language production and (first) language acquisition.

This 4-day course focuses on the psycholinguistic endeavour of mapping out the learning and cognitive mechanisms that allow humans to pick up patterns and regularities in linguistic input, and that might thus support the process of language acquisition. Focus will be on: (i) recognizing words and understanding sentences; (ii) producing spoken language; (iii) brain damage and aphasia; (iv) language acquisition in the first 4 years of life; (v) developmental language disorder and dyslexia. 

The course is offered by the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), the home of linguistic and communications research at Utrecht University. It is part of a set of four 4-day ILS Summer School courses: there is a € 50 discount when taking two of these courses.