Linguistics 393A - Seminar: Language Production

How do speakers use the grammar of their native language to produce sentences? How are complex thought/messages conveyed? This course will examine psycholinguistic theories of language production, highlighting questions such as: why are some speech errors common and other exceedingly rare? How are utterances prosodically encoded? How are words assessed and syntactically structured? What is the relation between language and thought? Prerequisites: LINGUIST 201.