13 Psycholinguistics: language and mind, universal grammar and its relevance,

mentalism, rationalism and innateness, language and the brain, language

acquisition.

Guidelines:

Mind

Monism and dualism

Idealism and materials

Rationalism and innateness

Language and the brain, lateralization

Language acquisition, grammar acquisition (periods)

Practical usage of psycholinguistics

References:

1 our lecture

2 Goerge Yule: The study of language,CUP, chapter 15 Language and the Brain and 16 First Language Acquisition

or Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman: An Introduction to Language, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., USA, chapter 10 and 11 Brain, Mind, and Language