TRAINING IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的心理语言学培训计划是一个语言学、心理学和交际障碍学科的研究人员和学生的社区，其中包括史密斯学院的研究人员。这个社区的成员在正常人群和特别感兴趣的人群中研究语言习得和成人语言表现，如说非裔美国英语(AAE)的人和聋人。该项目旨在为学生提供心理、语言和基于沟通障碍的心理语言学方法方面的专业知识。它的成员都相信，未来在我们对语言处理的理解方面的进步很可能来自于接受过这种跨学科培训的研究人员。博士前实习生(6名)将从马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的心理学、语言学和沟通障碍系中挑选出来。除了满足一系列旨在提供跨学科培训的特殊要求外，他们还将满足本国部门的所有正常要求。他们将在本国部门获得博士学位。博士后实习生(要求的两名)将从年轻学者中挑选，他们获得了相关学科之一的博士学位，并希望获得其他学科的专业知识。他们将审核语言学、交际障碍和心理学学科的研讨会和高级课程，参加心理语言学社区的定期会议以及更专业的研究小组的定期会议，并与项目教师合作并独立开展心理语言学的各种主题的研究。该项目旨在培训心理语言学家、语言学家和交流障碍专家，以进行语言习得和语言行为的基础研究。事实证明，这种研究对于理解各种语言习得和行为障碍(例如，失语症和耳聋)是有价值的。该计划为学生提供了极好的机会来探索他们的基础研究对语言障碍和对特殊兴趣人群的语言的适用性。

The Psycholinguistics Training Program at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst is a community of researchers and students in the disciplines of Linguistics, Psychology, and Communication Disorders, including researchers at Smith College. The members of this community study both language acquisition and adult language performance, in the normal population and in populations of special interest such as speakers of African American English (AAE) and deaf individuals. The program is designed to provide students with expertise in psychological, linguistic, and communication-disorders based approaches to psycholinguistics. Its members share the belief that future advances in our understanding of language processing will most likely come from researchers who have such cross-disciplinary training. Predoctoral trainees (six requested) will be drawn from the Departments of Psychology, Linguistics, and Communication Disorders at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. They will fulfill all the normal requirements of their home department in addition to meeting a set of special requirements designed to provide cross-disciplinary training. They will receive the Ph.D. Degree in their home department. The postdoctoral trainees (two requested) will be chosen from young scholars who have received their Ph.D. in one of the disciplines involved and who want to gain expertise in the other disciplines. They will audit seminars and advanced courses in the disciplines of Linguistics, Communication Disorders, and Psychology, attend regular meetings of the psycholinguistics community as well as regular meetings of more specialized research groups, and conduct research in various topics in psycholinguistics in collaboration with program faculty, and independently. The program is designed to train psycholinguists, linguists, and specialists in communication disorders to do basic research in language acquisition and language behavior. Such research is proving valuable in understanding a variety of disorders of language acquisition and behavior (e.g., in aphasia and in deafness). The program provides students with excellent opportunities to explore the applicability of their basic research to disorders of language and to language in populations of unusual interest.