The Psychology of Language

The Psychology of Language is a Cognitive Science class taught by Joanna Morris.

Course Description
Language is paramount among the capacities that characterize humans. We hold language as a marker of our humanity, and by understanding language we assume that we will understand something important about ourselves. In this course we will ask, and try to answer questions such as the following: What's so special about language? How do we produce sentences? How do we understand them? What might cause us to fail at either task? What is meaning, and how does language express it? Is our capacity for language a biological endowment unique to the human species? This course satisfies Division I distribution requirements.

Learning Goals

 * Reading
 * Writing