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Schedule of Topics, assigned readings, and activities
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1
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Overview of Issues and methodologies; Background on Speech Perception
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1/15
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1. Gleason & Ratner: Chapter 1 (pp. 1-49)
2. Harley: Chapter 1 (pp. 3-26)
Activity: Categorical Perception (download worksheet)
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2
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Speech Perception
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1/22
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1. Gleason & Ratner: Chapter 3 (pp. 107-156)
2. Nygaard, L. & Pisoni, D. (1995). Speech perception: new directions in
research and theory (pp. 63-96). In J. Miller & P. Eimas (Eds.) Speech,
Language, and Communication.
Activity: McGurk effect
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3
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Spoken Word Recognition
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1/29
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1. Harley: Chapter 8 (pp. 219-242)
2. Tyler, L., & Frauenfelder, U. (1989). The process of spoken word recognition;
an introduction (pp. 1-20). In U. Frauenelder & L. Tyler (Eds.) Spoken Word
Recognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Activity: Gating
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4
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Visual Word Recognition
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2/5
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1. Harley: Chapter 6 (pp. 141-177); Chapter 7 (pp. 179-218)
2. Seidenberg, M. (1995). Visual Word Recognition: An Overview (137-179). In J. Miller &
P. Eimas (Eds.) Speech, Language and Communication, New York: Academic Press.
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5
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Sentence Level Representations
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2/12
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1. Whitney, P. (1997). What language users must know (pp. 45-71). The
psychology of language. New York: Houghton Mifflin College.
2. Crocker, M. (1999). Mechanisms for sentence processing. In S. Garrod & M.
Pickering (Eds.) Language Processing (pp. 191-232). East Sussex, UK:
Psychology Press.
Activity: PSR, c-command, and binding (download worksheet)
==>Reading is light this week so you can get a head start on next week’s readings.
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Sentence Processing: Parsing and structural ambiguity resolution
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2/19
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1. Harley: Chapter 9 (pp. 245-274)
2. Tanenhaus, M. & Trueswell, J. (1995). Sentence Comprehension (pp. 217-262). In J. Miller & P. Eimas (Eds.) Speech, Language and Communication, New York: Academic Press.
3. Pickering, M. (1999). Sentence Comprehension (pp. 125-153). In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.) Language Processing. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Video: head-mounted eye-tracking
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7
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Sentence Processing: Interpretation of participant information
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2/26
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1. Schütze, C., & Gibson, E. (1999). Argumenthood and English prepositional
phrase attachment. Journal of Memory & Language, 40, 409-431.
2. Mauner, G. Koenig, J.-P., Melinger, A. & Bienvenue, B. (2002). The lexical
source of unexpressed participants and their role in sentence and discourse
understanding (pp. 233-254). In P. Merlo & S. Stevenson (Eds.) The lexical
basis of sentence processing Formal, computational, and experimental
issues. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
3. McRae, K., Ferretti, T., & Amyote, L. (1997). Thematic roles as verb-specific
concepts. Language & Cognitive Processes, 12, 137-176.
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8
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3/5
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Mid Term Exam
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9
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3/12
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Spring Recess
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10
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Discourse Processing: Situation models, anaphora, and inference
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3/19
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1. Harley: Chapter 11 (pp. 311-345)
2. Whitney, P. (1998). Understanding and remembering discourse. The
psychology of language (pp. 234-268). New York: Houghton Mifflin
3. Zwaan, R. & Radvansky, G. (1998). Situation models in language
comprehension. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 162-185. OVID
4. Keenan, J.M., Potts, G.R., Golding, J.M. & Jennings, T.M. (1990). Which
elaborative inferences are drawn during reading? A question of methodologies.
In D. A. Balota, G.B. Flores d'Arcais & K. Rayner (Eds.) Comprehension
Processes in Reading. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. pp. 377-402.
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Production: Conversation
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3/26
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1. Clark, H. & Bly, B. (1995). Pragmatics and Discourse (pp. 371-410). In J.
Miller & P. Eimas (Eds.) Speech, Language and Communication, New York:
Academic Press.
2. Clark, H. & Schober, M. (1992). Understanding by addressees and
overhearers (176-203). In H. Clark, Arenas of language use. Chicago
University of Chicago Press.
Activity: Krause Task
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12
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Production: Speech errors and syntactic priming
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4/2
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1. Gleason & Ratner: Chapter 7 (pp. 309-346)
2. Bock, K. (1995). Sentence Production: From mind to mouth (pp. 181-216). In
J. Miller & P. Eimas (Eds.) Speech, Language and Communication, New York:
Academic Press.
Activity: Silent slips of the tongue
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Biological Bases of language: Critical period and language disorders
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4/9
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1. Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., Mangun, G., & Swaab, T. (2002). Language and the
brain (pp. 351-399). In M. Gazzaniga, R. Ivry, G. Mangun (Eds.) Cognitive
neuroscience: The biology of the mind., 2nd ed.
2. Hoff, E. (2001). Biological bases of language development (pp. 37-74).
Language development, 2nd ed. Stamford, CT: Wadsworth/Thomspon Learning.
Video: Genie |
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First and second language acquisition, bilingualism
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4/16
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1. Harley: Chapter 4 (91-130); Chapter 5 (131-138)
2. Bloom, P. (1993). Overview: Controversies in language acquisition. In P.
Bloom (Ed.) (1993) Language acquisition Core readings (pp. 5-48).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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15
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Is language uniquely human?
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4/23
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1. Harley 47-59
2. Savage-Rumbaugh, S, McDonald, K, Sevcik, R.A., Hopkins, W.D., Rubert, E.
(1986). Spontaneous Symbol Acquisition and Communicative Use by Pygmy
Chimpanzees (Pan paniscus). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
115, 211-235.
2. Seidenberg, M.S. & Petitto, L.A. (1979). Signing Behavior in apes: A Critical
Review. Cognition, 2, 177-215.
3. Seidenberg, M.S. & Petitto, L.A. (1987). Communication, Symbolic
Communication, and Language: Comment on Savage-Rumbaugh, McDonald,
Sevcik, Hopkins, Rubert (1986). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
116, 279-287.
4. Kako, E. (1999). elements of syntax in the systems of three language-trained
animals. Animal learning and Behavior, 27, 1-14.
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16
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Finals
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Extended essay due; Date and time TBA
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