The fees for the course Bilingualism: A cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective is -
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Amount in INR
Exam fees
Rs. 1,000
The Syllabus
Becoming and being bilingual : Socio-historical aspects: Language contact: reasons and effect
Attitude and acculturation; Markers of a bilingual society: The continuum: Who is a bilingual? fractional and wholistic view of bilingualism
Types of bilinguals; learning pathways for monolinguals Vs bilinguals; bilingual’s language mode
Bicultural bilingual.Bilingualism and multilingualism: some important points
Bilingual acquisition
Childhood bilingualism; childhood SLA; adult SLA
Bilingual cognition
Relativity; color cognition, perception of motion, grammatical categories, spatial language; conceptual transfer. Bilingual memory models; Episodic, semantic and working memory
Brain of a bilingual
Cerebral laterality; aphasia & electrophysiological data; laterality in terms of Age of Acquisition, proficiency and control mechanisms; behavioral laterality
Bilingual speech processing
Speech perception, comprehension and production in children and adults; base language effect in categorical perception and speech production
Bilingual lexical and sentence processing
Bilingual mental lexicon: phonological, orthographic, and semantic representations;
Models of lexical access: language selective Vs non-selective hypothesis;
Models of bilingual representation and processing: RHM, BIA, BIA+, BIMOLA, Multilink; comprehension: effect of frequency, Age-of-Acquisition, context, priming, cross-language lexical properties.
Production: language production models: MLF model, Uniform structure principle, the 4-M model, the abstract level model; selection and control in production; factors affecting production.Sentence processing;reading and writing
Cognitive consequences of bilingualism : Consequences of bilingualism: metalinguistic abilities; language control; executive control and cognitive reserve; Consequences of bilingualism: metalinguistic abilities; language control;executive control and cognitive reserve
Applied areas : Bilingual education; language planning and policy; language teaching; advertising; current trends in bilingualism research