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Our course MA Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, provides you with a thorough grounding in research on human language processing, the representation of language in the brain, and first language acquisition and its disorders. The course covers the processing and acquisition of sounds, words and sentences, looks at different kinds of developmental language disorders and investigates the relevance of data from human language processing to our understanding of the nature of language.
You will take compulsory modules in the Foundations of Linguistics (covering sound systems and sentence structure) and Experimental Design and Analysis, where you will learn how to design, conduct, and analyse experiments. You can decide to specialise in Language Processing and choose amongst modules such as Words in the Mind (dealing with how words are represented and accessed in the mind) and Sentence Processing (how speakers understand sentences in real time). You can also focus on Language Acquisition and take modules such as Childrens English and Developmental Language Disorders, or go for a combination of the two specialties. These classes will provide you with the ability to better interpret results and analyse their theoretical and methodological implications. You will also write a dissertation on a topic of your choice between April and September.
If you are interested in gaining knowledge about the psychological and neurological underpinnings of language while developing key skills in research, experimentation and data analysis, then this course will suit you. Our MA Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics can lead to further research in the form of a PhD, or can lead you to a career in areas such as academic research, publishing, journalism, administration, public service and teaching.
A Masters course is an academically rigorous programme during which you explore your subject in depth, reaching a high level of specialist knowledge. You draw on knowledge and skills from your undergraduate study or your professional life to produce work of a high academic standard, informed by current thinking and debate.
A full-time Masters course lasts for twelve months, starting in October, and consists of taught modules during your autumn and spring terms, and normally a research-based dissertation or other project-based work submitted in September. A part-time Masters course lasts for 24 months, normally starting in October, and consists of taught modules spread out over two years, with normally a research-based dissertation or other project-based work submitted in September of the second year. Each of the taught modules you take in the Department of Language and Linguistics counts for 15 credits. The total credit weighting for a Masters course is 180: 120 for taught modules and 60 for the MA dissertation. (If you are from the EU, then our Masters courses are regarded as second-cycle qualifications under the Bologna Declaration and consist of 90 ECTS credits).
Modules
Core modules
* Ma Dissertation
Compulsory modules
* Experimental Design And Analysis
Optional modules
* Developmental Language Disorders
* Early Phonological Development And Speech Sound Disorders
* Graduate Research Assignment
* Individual Differences In L2 Learning
* Language And Memory
* Second Language Acquisition And Linguistics Theory
* Sentence Processing
* Syntactic Theory I
* The Role Of Age In Bilingual Development
* Theoretical And Descriptive Phonology
* Words In The Mind
Core modules must be taken and passed.
Core with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken and passed.
Compulsory modules must be taken.
Compulsory with options modules selected from limited lists must be taken.
Optional modules are selected from course specific lists.
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