The course of 'psycholinguistics' initially provides a unique window into the functional and neural architecture of language. Students are going to recognize how the clinical syndromes produce a rich tapestry of impairments and abilities that show evidence of how the language system fractionates as well as how robust the properties of language are under conditions of brain injury. This will de facto illuminate for them the processing of language which engages a network of perisylvian areas of the left hemisphere, all recruited in speech, lexical, and syntactic processing. This also discusses how the study of language and mind overlaps with that of language and the brain. This is per se deisgned to explore what goes on in the human mind as an individual acquires, comprehends, produces and stores language.
The so-called 'innateness question' has been a burning issue over the last half century. The students will, then, tackle the following questions:
-How much language is pre-programmed within the human mind?
-Do humans have a genetically imprinted 'universal grammar' as Chomsky suggests?
- Enseignant: Amina BABOU