LING 410/510: Advanced Psycholimguistics

This is a seminar class with the selection of topics within psycholinguistics based largely on the current students’ interests. Each student chooses a topic to explore within psycholinguistics and both leads discussions of the relevant readings and develops a research project on the topic.

Textbook: Gaskell, M. G. 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press.

Schedule (updated as it develops):

Week 1: Trends in psycholinguistics

Reading: Chapter 49 (Garrett, M. Thinking across the boundaries: Psycholinguistic perspectives.)

Week 2: Connectionist and statistical approaches to psycholinguistics

Tue:

Chapter 4 (Gaskell, M. G. Statistical and connectionist models of speech perception and word recognition.)

Chapter 1 (Pisoni, D. B., & S. V. Levi. Representations and representational specificity in speech perception and spoken word recognition.) Presented by Ogyoung.

Thu:

Chapter 36 (Gomez, R. Statistical learning in infant language development.)

Week 3

Tue:

Vihman, M. M. 1996. Phonological development. Chapter 8. (On Blackboard.) Presented by Hema.

Chapter 29. (Fowler. Speech production.) Presented by Danielle.

Thu:

Chapter 28. (Meyer & Belke. Word form retrieval in language production.) Presented by Wook Kyung.

Week 4

Tue:

Chapter 18. (Tanenhaus. Spoken language comprehension: Insights from eye movements.) Presented by Hideko.

Chapter 39 (Trueswell, J. C., & L. R. Gleitman. Learning to parse and its implications for language acquisition.) Presented by Alex.

Thu:

Chapter 20 (Singer. Inference processing in discourse comprehension.) Presented by Levi.

Week 5

Tue:

Chapter 15 (Dijkstra. The multilingual lexicon.) Presented by Stas.

Thu:

Chapter 43. (Emmorey. The psycholinguistics of signed and spoken languages: How biology affects processing.) Presented by Ani.

Week 6

Tue:

Project proposal presentations.

Thu:

Project proposal presentations.

Week 7

Tue:

Sauermann, A., B. Hoehle, A. Chen, & J. Jarvikivi. 2011. Intonational marking of focus in different word orders in German children. Proceedings of WCCFL 28, 313-322. Presented by Hema.

510: Sekerina, I., & J. Trueswell. In press. Interactive processing of contrastive expressions by Russian children. First Language. Presented by Hema.

Thu:

Croot, K., Au, C., Harper, A. 2010. Prosodic structure and tongue twister errors. Laboratory Phonology 10, 433‐459. Presented by Wook Kyung.

510: Choe, W. K., & M. A. Redford. Submitted. The relationship between speech errors and prosodic phrase boundaries. Laboratory Phonology. Presented by Wook Kyung.

Week 8

Tue:

Baker, R. E., M. Baese-Berk, L. Bonasse-Gahot, M. Kim, K. J. Van Engen, & A. R. Bradlow. 2011. Word durations in non-native English. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 1-17. Presented by Danielle.

510: Gahl, S. 2008. Time and thyme are not homophones: : Word durations in spontaneous speech. Language, 84, 474-496. Presented by Danielle.

Thu:

Huettig, F., & J. M. McQueen. 2007. The tug of war between phonological, semantic and shape information in language-mediated visual search. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 460-482. Presented by Hideko.

510: Zhang, Q., H. C. Chen, B. S. Weekes , & Y. Yang. 2009. Independent effects of orthographic and phonological facilitation on spoken word production in Mandarin. Language & Speech, 52, 113-126. Presented by Hideko.

Week 9

Tue:

Becker, M., N. Ketrez, & A. Nevins. 2011. The surfeit of the stimulus: Analytic biases filter lexical statistics in Turkish laryngeal alternations. Language, 87, 84-123. Presented by Ogyoung.

510: Kapatsinski, V. 2010. Rethinking rule reliability: How an exceptionless rule can fail. Chicago Linguistic Society, 44(2), 277-291. Presented by Ogyoung.

Thu:

Gleitman, L., D. January, R. Nappa, & J. C. Trueswell. 2007. On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation. Journal of Memory & Language, 57, 544-69. Presented by Alex.

510: Chapter 6.3 from Rasolofo, A. 2006. Malagasy transitive clause types and their functions. Ph.D. Dissertation, U of Oregon. Presented by Alex.

Week 10

Tue:

410: Pickering, M. J., & H. P. Branigan. 1999. Syntactic priming in language production. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 136-141. Presented by Levi.

510: Pickering, M. J., & V. S. Ferreira. 2008. Structural priming: A critical review. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 427-459. Presented by Levi.

Thu:

Catching up.