160145 PS Introductory Seminar on Language Acquisition (2011W)

The course will introduce methods used in psycholinguistic research, drawing attention to potential methodological confounds. It also aims to teach students how to chose the method that fits their research question and target population best.. We will also give a general introduction to designing and running experiments, as well as analysing the results and drawing conclusions. The review of methods will include methods used in studies of the mental lexicon (naming, picture selection, phoneme and category monitoring, lexical decision, etc.) studies of sentence processing (off-line and online), priming, and methods used in language acquisition research.