How do we acquire language? How do we use it? How does language affect our thought and experience? This course examines language from multiple perspectives and focuses on several key issues such as language acquisition, the use of language and gesture to communicate, and how language biases the ways we think about what we experience. In approaching these issues, we will draw on research from psychology (especially cognitive psychology and the psychology of language) but also from disciplines outside of psychology, such as anthropology and linguistics. Format: seminar Requirements: two short papers, research paper, class participation, and class presentation. Prerequisite: Psychology 221 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limit: 25 (expected: 15). Empirical Project
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