PSYCH 242

Language and Human Mind

Undergraduate credit

This course introduces students to the fascinating "cognitive revolution" in contemporary language study, illuminating the Chomskyan shift away from speech behavior or "languages" as the objects of inquiry to the experimental and theoretical study of the biological/cognitive and mechanisms underlying our unique human capacity for language.

Prerequisites & course information

Not available to students who have completed LING 103 (courseID 020035), Topic: Language and Mind,(Topic #6). (Prerequisites enforced at registration.) (4; 3 in the half-term). (ID). May not be repeated for credit.

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026-2027

Catalogue variants

Language and Human Mind · Undergraduate credit