TRAINING IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校的心理语言学培训项目是一个由语言学、心理学和交流障碍学科的研究人员和学生组成的社区，其中包括史密斯学院的研究人员。这个社区的成员研究语言习得和成人语言表现，研究对象包括正常人群和特殊人群，如说非裔美国人英语（AAE）和聋人。该计划旨在为学生提供心理，语言和沟通障碍方面的专业知识，以心理语言学为基础。它的成员都相信，未来我们对语言处理的理解将最有可能来自受过这种跨学科训练的研究人员。将从马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校的心理学、语言学和交流障碍系抽取博士预科学员（6名）。他们将满足其所在部门的所有正常要求，并满足一系列旨在提供跨学科培训的特殊要求。他们将在自己的院系获得博士学位。博士后研修生（2名）将从已获得某一学科博士学位并希望在其他学科获得专业知识的青年学者中选择。他们将旁听语言学、交际障碍和心理学等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，并与项目教师合作或独立进行心理语言学各种主题的研究。该项目旨在培训心理语言学家、语言学家和交流障碍专家，从事语言习得和语言行为的基础研究。这种研究在理解各种语言习得和行为障碍（例如失语症和耳聋）方面被证明是有价值的。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不寻常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.