Anotace
In the course, the language is treated as a unique product of cognitive processes of the human mind, differing from other types of communication. The course gives insight into how language enables people to organize their thoughts and categorize their experience, which makes the subject indispensable even for language teachers. Themes:
1. Introducction, history and position of psycholinguistics, research objectives, key concepts in psycholinguistics
2. Human vs animal communication; nonverbal communication; sign language
3. Biological origina of language. Characteristics of language and language competence
4. First language acquisition
5. Memory; information processing; mental lexicon
6. Comprehension and production; reprezentation of meaning
7. Production and comprehension of discourse. Teory of schemes. Informativity
8. Language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing)
9. Brain and language; language disorders or impairments; language loss;
10. Bilingualism
11. Research and experiments in psycholinguistics