Psychology and Linguistics

About this course

Psychology and linguistics is a pairing that tackles the most extraordinary feature of human beings: our capacity for language. Psychology provides the scientific tools to study the mind, brain and behaviour, examining how we perceive, remember, reason, feel and interact. Linguistics analyses language itself, from its sounds and structures to its meanings and social functions. Together they converge on the questions that are most fundamental to both: how do children acquire language? How does the brain represent and process linguistic information? How does language shape thought? And how does communication function in social interaction? At the University of Edinburgh, one of the leading centres for both psychology and linguistics in the world, this four-year degree develops your understanding of psychology as an experimental and observational science, as the university's own descriptio

Where its graduates go

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