Bachelor of Arts (BA)

BA Linguistics and Russian

Investigate the science of language and develop skills to thrive in a Russian-speaking environment.

  • Duration: 4 years
  • Year of entry: 2025
  • UCAS course code: QR17 / Institution code: M20
  • Key features:
  • Study abroad
  • Study with a language

Full entry requirementsHow to apply

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).

Scholarships/sponsorships

Scholarships and bursaries are available to eligible Home/EU students, this is in addition to the government package of maintenance grants.

Course unit details:
Psycholinguistics

Course unit fact file
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

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