Psy 642: Psycholinguistics

In-depth readings

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Date
Schedule of Topics, assigned readings, and activities
1
Overview of Issues and methodologies; Background on Speech Percepetion
1/15
2
Speech Perception
1/22
 *1. Goldinger, S.D., Pisoni, D.B., Luce, P.A. (1996). Speech Perception and
Spoken Word Recognition: Research and Theory (pp. 277-327). In N.J. Lass
(Ed.) Principles of Experimental Phonetics. New York: Mosby.
2. Liberman, A,. & Mattingly, I. (1985). The motor theory of speech perception
revised. Cognition, 21, 1-36.
*3. McClelland, J. & Elman, J, (1986). Interactive Processes in Speech Perception:
The Trace Model (pp. 58-121). In J. McClelland, D. Rumelhart, et al. (Eds.)
Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
3
Spoken Word Recognition
1/29
 1. Marslen-Wilson, W. (1989). Access and Integration: Projecting Sound onto
Meaning. In W. Marslen-Wilson (Ed.) Lexical Representation and Process
(pp. 3-24). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
*2. Luce, P. & Pisoni, D. (1998). Recognizing spoken words: The neighborhood
activation model. Ear and Hearing, 19(1), 1-36.
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Visual Word Recognition
2/5
 1. Coltheart, M., Curtis, B., Atkins, P., & Haller, M. (1993). Models of reading
aloud: Dual route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches.
Psychological Review, 100, 586-608. OVID
*2. Plaut, D., McClelland, J.L., Seidenberg, M.S., Patterson, K. (1996).
Understanding Normal and Impaired Word Reading: Computational
Principles in Quasi-Regular Domains. Psychological Review, 103, 56-115.
OVID
5
Sentence Level Representations
2/12
6
Sentence Processing: Parsing and structural ambiguity resolution
2/19
 1. Ferreira, F. & Clifton, C. (1986). The independence of syntactic processing.
Journal of memory and language, 25, 348-368.
2. Frazier, L. & Rayner, K. (1982). Making and correcting errors during sentence
comprehension: Eye movements in the analysis of structurally ambiguous
sentences. Cognitive Psychology, 14, 178-210.1.
3. MacDonald, M.C., Pearlmutter, N.J., & Seidenberg, M.S. (1994). Syntactic
ambiguity resolution as lexical ambiguity resolution (pp. 123-153). In C.
Clifton, Jr., L. Frazier, K. Rayner (Eds.) Perspectives on Sentence Processing.
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
4. Trueswell, J. & Tanenhaus, M. (1994). Toward a lexicalist framework for
constraint-based syntactic ambiguity resolution (155-179). In C. Clifton, Jr., L.
Frazier, K. Rayner (Eds.) Perspectives on Sentence Processing. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.
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Sentence Processing: Interpretation of participant information
2/26
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3/5
M id Term Exam
9
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3/12
Spring Recess
10
Discourse Processing: Situation models, anaphora, and inference
3/19
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11
Production: Conversation
3/26
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12
Production: Speech errors and syntactic priming
4/2
 1. Bock, K. & Huitema, J. (1999). Language Production. In S. Garrod & M.
Pickering (Eds.) Language Processing (pp. 365-388). East Sussex, UK:
Psychology Press.
*2. Dell, G. (1986). A spreading Activation theory of retrieval in sentence
production. Psychological Review, 93, 282-321.3.
3. Bock, J.K. & Lobell, H. (1990). Framing Sentences. Cognition, 35, 1-39.
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Biological Bases of language: Critical period and language disorders
4/9
 1. Bates, E., & Goodman, J. (1997). On the inseparability of grammar and the
lexicon: Evidence from acquisition, aphasia and real-time processing. In G.
Altmann (Ed.), Special issue on the lexicon, Language and Cognitive
Processes, 12, 507-586. Download from:http://crl.ucsd.edu/~bates/papers.html
2. Saffran, E., Dell, G., & Schwartz, M. (2000). Computational Modeling of
language disorders (pp. 933-948). In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.) The new cognitive
neurosciences, 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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First and second language acquisition, bilingualism
4/16
 *1. Rumelhart, D. & McClelland, J. (1986). On the learning the past tense of
English verbs (pp. 216-271). In In J. McClelland, D. Rumelhart, et al. (Eds.)
Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Pinker, S. (1991). Rules of language. Science, 253, 530-5. Reprinted in P.
Bloom (Ed.) (1993) Language acquisition Core readings (pp. 5-48).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 472-484).
3. Daugherty, K. & Seidenberg, M. (1992). Rules or connections? The past tense
revisited (pp. 259-264). In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
4. Saffran, J. Aslin, R., & Newport, E. (1996). Statistical learning by 8-month-
old infants. Science, 274, 1926-1928. download from:
www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/newport/saffran1996.pdf
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Is language uniquely human?
4/23
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Finals
Extended essay due; Date and time TBA