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LIGN 170Psycholinguistics

4 units · LIGN · UC San Diego

The study of how humans learn, represent, comprehend, and produce language. Topics include visual and auditory recognition of words, sentence comprehension, reading, sentence production, language acquisition, neural representation of language, bilingualism, and language disorders.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “LIGN 101, or upper-division standing, or consent of instructor.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

One of the options in (4)

  • Linguistics (B.A.)
  • Linguistics (Cognition and Language) (B.A.)
  • Linguistics (Language and Society) (B.A.)
  • Linguistics (Speech and Language Sciences) (B.A.)
What it opens up

Courses that list LIGN 170 as a prerequisite (1)

  • LIGN 172 Psycholinguistics Laboratory Projects