Ling 396
Language and Cognition
Winter 2011
MWF 10-10:50, ED 176
R 10-10:50 or 1-1:50
Course goals:
This course introduces students to
psycholinguistics. We will survey some of the major research areas within
psycholinguistics, including (first) language acquisition, word recognition,
sentence comprehension, language production, and the architecture of the
language system. Students will get some experience reading primary literature
through discussion of influential research articles and will be required to
write a review of a recent article.
Book:
Harley, Trevor A.
2008. The Psychology of Language: From
Data to Theory, 3rd Edition. Psychology Press.
Requirements:
Research participation (4.5
hours)
15% Article review
25% Participation in discussion sections
60% exams (Midterms – 30%, Final
– 30%)
Preliminary
schedule:
1.1-1.2:
Introduction
Chapter 1
1.3:
Fundamental issues in language development
Chapter
3, pp.67-87
2.1:
The driving forces of language development
Chapter 4, pp.103-119
2.2:
Lexical development
Chapter 4: pp.125-136
2.Discussion:
Smith, L. B., & C. Yu. 2008. Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational
statistics. Cognition, 106, 1558-68.
2.3:
Phonological development
Chapter 2: pp.27-34
Chapter 4: pp.119-125
3.1:
Syntactic development I
Chapter 4: pp.136-145
3.2:
Syntactic development II
Chapter 4: pp.145-151
3.Discussion:
Review for midterm
3.3:
Midterm I
4.1:
Visual word recognition I
Chapter 6: pp.167-192
4.2:
Visual word recognition II
Chapter 6: pp.193-199
4.
Discussion: Midterm I postgame analysis
4.3:
Visual word recognition III
Chapter 6: pp.199-208
5.1:
Spoken word recognition I
Chapter 9: pp.257-267
5.2:
Spoken word recognition II
Chapter 9: pp.267-283
5.Discussion:
McMurray, B., M. Tanenhaus,
& R. Aslin.
2002. Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on
lexical access. Cognition,
86, B33-B42.
5.3:
Morphological structure in word recognition
Altmann,
G. T. M. In preparation. The Ascent of Babel, 2nd
edition. Chapter 6, pp.1-3, 18-21
6.1:
Word meaning I
Chapter 11, pp.321-342
6.2:
Word meaning II
Chapter 11, pp.342-360
6.Discussion:
Review for Midterm
6.3:
Midterm II
7.1:
Sentence comprehension: Ambiguity resolution
Chapter 10, pp.287-291, 298-313
7.2:
Sentence comprehension: Simulation
Zwaan, R.
A., & C. J. Madden. 2005. Embodied sentence comprehension. In D. Pecher & R.A. Zwaan (Eds.), The grounding of cognition:
The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. Cambridge
University Press.
7.Discussion: Eyetracking demo
7.3: Midterm II postgame analysis
8.1: Word recognition and sentence comprehension in
bilinguals
Chapter 5, pp.153-158
8.2: Making inferences in conversation
Tanenhaus, M.K. &
S. Brown-Schmidt.
2008. Language processing in the natural world.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences, 363,
1105-1122.
8.Discussion: Tasks and naturalness
8.3: Production: Speech errors
Chapter
13, pp.397-404
9.1: Production: Disfluencies
and the production/perception loop
Fox
Tree, J. E. 2001. Listeners’ uses of um
and uh in speech comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 29, 320-326.
9.2: Production: Syntactic planning
Chapter
13, pp.404-412
9.2: Production: Lexicalization
Chapter
13, pp.412-428, 432-435
9. Discussion
Hartsuiker, R. J., M. J. Pickering, & E. Veltkamp. 2004.
Is syntax separate or shared between languages? Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Spanish-English bilinguals.
Psychological Science, 15, 409-414.
9.3. Production: Phonological planning and encoding
Chapter
13, pp.428-432
Choe, W. K., & M. A. Redford. Forthcoming. The relationship between speech errors and prosodic phrase boundaries. Laboratory Phonology, 3.
10.1: Architecture of the language system
Chapter
3, pp. 67-71,
Chapter 7, 220-227,
Chapter 15: pp.463-477
10.2: Language and thought
Chapter
3, pp.87-98
10.Discussion
Review
for final
10.3: Review for final