- UCAS course code
- QL13
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
BA Linguistics and Sociology
Duration: 3 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: QL13 / Institution code: M20
- Typical A-level offer: ABB
- Typical contextual A-level offer: BBC
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: BBC
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 34 points overall with 6,6,5 at HL
Fees and funding
Fees
Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £26,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
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Course unit details:
Psycholinguistics
| Unit code | LELA20961 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 20 |
| Unit level | Level 2 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
This course provides an introduction to psycholinguistics, with special focus on the developmental trajectory of key competencies. We will discuss the central topics and major findings of psycholinguistics and learn about the experimental methods that researchers use to investigate the psychological processes underlying language underlying language comprehension and production.
This unit is a prerequisite for LELA30672 Topics in Language Development.
Aims
The principal aims of the course unit are as follows:
- To familiarize students with both classical findings and recent developments in psycholinguistics.
- To gain a developmental perspective on key psycholinguistic domains.
- Expose students to fundamental experimental paradigms used in the field.
- Help students develop necessary skills to critically evaluate psycholinguistic studies.
Knowledge and understanding
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Understand key concepts relating to language and cognition.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the major psychological processes involved in speech perception, word recognition, and sentence processing.
- Compare and contrast competing developmental accounts of psycholinguistic processes and competencies.
- Describe major research methods commonly used by psycholinguistic researchers.
Intellectual skills
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Identify appropriate experimental methods for testing psycholinguistic hypotheses.
- Evaluate the quality and strength of arguments and claims made in psycholinguistic studies.
- Critique the developmental plausibility of key psycholinguistic theories.
Practical skills
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Develop testable hypotheses about psycholinguistic phenomena
- Identify suitable research methods for hypothesis testing
- Design simple psycholinguistic experiments to address research questions
Transferable skills and personal qualities
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Formulate and critically evaluate arguments
- Use empirical research methods to test hypotheses
Assessment methods
| Essay | 40% |
| Written Examination | 60% |
| Essay plan | NA (formative) |
| Sample exam answer plan | NA (formative) |
Feedback methods
| Feedback method | Formative or summative |
| Written feedback via Gradebook | All work |
| Oral feedback during office hours | All work |
Recommended reading
- Brookes and Kempe (2012). Language Development. Blackwell
- Traxler, M. (2011). Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science. Whiley.
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Assessment written exam | 2 |
| Lectures | 22 |
| Seminars | 10 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 166 |