Psy 642: Psycholinguistics

Internet Resources
Topics
Overview of Issues and methodologies; Background on Speech Perception
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/ is a site contains a lot of very useful and interesting information about the study of language. You might find particularly interesting the links to learning second languages under the category of Pedagogy and the Language Resources links which include dictionaries, and information about language families and endangered languages. You can get the Klingon language page if you click on Language Novelties

http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/POL/POL.htm is a psycholinguistics megasite. It contains links to Psychology of Language Researchers , Language Labs andPrograms, Organizations, Software, Corpora, Databases, Questionnaires, and Tests, and much more.

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/psych contains short essays on topics we will be covering this semester.

The runword site at http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~kello/runword.html contains software tools for running psycholinguistics experiments.

This lexicographic site http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/ has a number of interesting and useful features. You might enjoy the idiom of the day, enter the win a dictionary contest, or check out the wordwatch page which provides commentary on current English.

Rhymezone, at http://www.rhymezone.com/, in addition to providing an electonic rhyming dictionary also has vocabulary quizzes, quotations, etc.

http://psych.rice.edu/mmtbn/ contains brief discussions and demonstrations for most of the topics covered in class. The demonstrations do not appear to be Mac compatible.

Interesting site on the Stroop Effect with Stroop demonstrations: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/words.html
Speech Perception
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/speech.html is a megasite on speech perception. Here you find links to labs, conferences, organizations, journals, archives and much more.

If you want to to hear samples of syntheitic speech and look at their corresponding speech spectograms, click on http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/inside.html and go to the tools area.

At http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~lholt/gallery.html you can experience various speech perception effects (Phonetic context, lexical context, and Semantic context) for yourself.

At the Haskins Lab site at http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/MISC/facilities.html, you can sample a VOT demonstration (Categorical Perception) and read more about motor theory (Gestural Model), or listen to sine wave synthesis demonstrations.

http://mick.murraystate.edu/cdi615/Categrcl.htm provides a clear description of categorical perception

Categorical perception demonstration at http://www.ling.umu.se/~rand/KatPer/index.eng.html
for PCs only

A demonstration of the McGurk Effect with synthesized speech can be experienced at: http://mambo.ucsc.edu/demos.html.

At http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html you can experience the McGurk effect with natural speech.

http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/i.htm allows you to explore the role of F0 in vowel perception.
Spoken Word Recognition
Get word frequency and lots of other types of lexical norms at http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/MRCDataBase/uwa_mrc.htm.
Visual Word Recognition
If you are interested in learning more about dyslexia, the following two URLs should be helpful: http://www.greenwood.org/resources/restea.html and
http://www.greenwoord.org/roadmap/rdindex.html. The latter includes an extensive bibliography.
Sentence Level Representations
http://psych.rice.edu/mmtbn/ has a chapter on syntactic representations
Sentence Processing: Parsing and structural ambiguity resolution
At this site http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/Trueswellabs/video.html you can find out about eye-tracking and view videos of head mounted eye-tracking while people are listening to ambiguous sentences.
Sentence Processing: Interpretation of participant information
You can read about some of the research that is done in my laboratory at http://psychling.buffalo.edu

The verbnet project extract semantic roles from text: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/verbnet/

Two projects, Latent semantic analysis (LSA) http://lsa.colorado.edu/whatis.html, and Hyperspace analog to language model (HAL) http://locutus.ucr.edu/~curt/halhome.html create meaning vectors for words from text.

Discourse Processing: Situation models, anaphora, and inference

Production: Conversation
Production: Speech errors and syntactic priming
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/psych contains classic short papers on topics such as slips of the tongue.

http://www.nidlink.com/~dgookin/malaprop.htm contains a collection of malapropisms

A collectin of spoonerisms and other fun with words can be found at: http://www.fun-with-words.com/spoonerisms.html
Biological Bases of language: Critical period and language disorders
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/psych contains classic short papers on topics critical periods, transcripts from Genie, neurolinguistics (including what handedness has to do with language) .

Conversations with Neil’s brain: information on aphasia, sturge-weber syndrome, dyslexia, bilingualism, language acquisition, critical periods in an engaging and accessible format. http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk7/bk7.htm

http://www.bu.edu/aphasia/index.html links you to one of the major aphaisa research centers in the country.
First and second language acquisition, bilingualism
The Childes database contains transcribed language samples of children’s language: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/psych contains classic short papers on topics such as language acquisition.
Is language uniquely human?
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwlrc/index.html leads you to The Language Research Center for Primates. The site includes biographies of many primates who have participated in language studies. Click on the link to the apes to get to their biographies.

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/psych contains classic short papers on topics such as animal communication (including an internet chat with Koko the Gorilla).