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, 3^rd 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, 2^nd 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

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��������������� 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

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��������������� Chapter 3, pp. 67-71,

Chapter 7, 220-227,

Chapter 15: pp.463-477

10.2: Language and thought

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��������������� Chapter 3, pp.87-98

10.Discussion

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Review for final

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10.3: Review for final