Psycholinguistics focuses on how language is learned, processed, understood, and produced by the human mind. Through a blend of theory and experimental evidence, the course examines how adult listeners and readers interpret words and sentences, how speakers plan and articulate words and sentences, how language is interpreted in its social context and how the languages of the world are both similar and different. Students will engage with foundational research methods in psycholinguistics, including behavioural methods and eye-tracking, and will critically evaluate how experimental findings inform models of language processing. By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that supports language use and the challenges involved in modeling this complex system. (Sponsored by the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology, but administered solely by the Dept. of Linguistics).