1. specifics of the psycholinguistic approach to the analysis of linguistic phenomena, psycholinguistic paradigms

2. specifics of natural human language x animal means of communication, human adaptation to language

3. mental structures of the individual connected with speech activity: mental encyclopedia, mental lexicon

4. mental structures of the individual connected with speech activity: mental grammar

5. human communication procedure, the mental process of text production and perception and its modelling

6. speech disorders, dysphasia and aphasia

7. acquisition of the mother tongue: stages, development of pronunciation, characteristics of the first lexicon

8. acquisition of the mother tongue: sequence of acquisition of grammatical categories of flexible words, characteristics of the first syntactic constructions

9. learning a foreign language, bilingualism in different concepts

10. language and thought, linguistic relativism x universalism

11. metaphor as a manifestation of the economy of thought, cognitive linguistics

12. non-verbal means of communication, sign language