Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Graduate Homepage

This page contains information for graduate students interested in our degree schemes in Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics and Language Disorders.

General enquiries about graduate admissions should be directed to laladms@essex.ac.uk.

Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics at Essex focuses on:

• language processing in first and second language learners
• child language acquisition
• the representation of language in the mind/brain.

What's special about psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics at Essex?

Click on the following links for more detailed information:

• Who does psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics at Essex?
  Prof. A. Radford, Dr. S. Eisenbeiss
• MA in Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
• MA in Language Disorders
• MA Language Acquisition
• Further Information (laboratories, research collaborations etc.)

What are the career prospects in this area?

Click on this link for more detailed careers information.

Where can I can learn more about psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics?

Click on the following links:

• What is Psycholinguistics (Wikipedia entry)?
• What is Neurolinguistics (Wikipedia entry)?

Or read one or more of the following:

Ahlsen, E. (2006). Introduction to Neurolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Anderson, S. and D. Lightfoot (2002) The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Altmann, G. (1997) The Ascent of Babel. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press.

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