| Week |
Topics |
Readings
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| WK1 |
Introduction and syllabus review.
What is language?
Psycholinguistics: A brief history |
No readings this week. |
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| WK2 |
Some basic linguistics |
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| WK3 |
Foundations of Language
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Pick 2 of the following 3:
Hockett, C. F. (1960).
The origin of speech. Scientific American. 203, 89-96.
Altmann, Gerry
TM. The language machine: Psycholinguistics in review.
British Journal of Psychology. Vol 92(1) Feb 2001,
129-170.
Pulvermuller,
F. (2001). Brain reflections of words and their meaning.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 517-524.
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| WK4 |
Review and catch-up
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No readings, prepare for exam
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| WK5 |
Development of Language
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Still trying to find my copy
Sachs, J. (1997). Communication development in infancy. In
J. B. Gleason (Ed.), The development of language (4th ed.
Pp. 40-68). Boston: Allyn and Bacon
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| WK6 |
Bilingualism
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Bates, E., Devescovi,
A., & Wulfeck, B. (2000). Psycholinguistics: A
cross-language perspective. Annual Review of Psychology,
52, 369-396.
Ransdell, S.,
Arecco, M.R., & Levy, C.M. (2001). Bilingual
long-term working memory: The effects of working memory
loads on writing quality and fluency. Applied
Psycholinguistics. Vol 22(1) Mar 2001, 113-128.
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| WK7 |
Language Comprehension
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Diehl, Randy L; Lotto,
Andrew J; Holt, Lori L. Speech perception. Annual Review
of Psychology. Vol 55 Feb 2004, 149-179 |
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| WK8 |
Language Comprehension |
Daneman, M.,
& Carpenter, P. A. (1980). Individual differences in
working memory and reading. Journal of Verbal Learning and
Verbal Behavior, 19, 450-466. (BB)
Kennison, S. M.
(2001). Limitations on the use of verb information
during sentence comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin
& Review. Vol 8(1), 132-138. |
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| WK9 |
Language Comprehension |
add a Simpson article here
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| WK10 |
Language Comprehension |
Foltx, P. W. Kintsch,
W., & Landauer, T. K. (1998). The measurement of
textual coherence with Latent Semantic Analysis.
Discourse Processess, 25, 285-307.
Gennari,
Silvia P. Temporal References and Temporal Relations
in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Vol
30(4) Jul 2004, 877-890.
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| WK11 |
Catch-up and review
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No readings, prepare for exam
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| WK12 |
Language Production |
Bock, Kathryn.
Language production: Methods and methodologies.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Vol 3(4) Dec 1996,
395-421.
Berg, T.
(2002). Slips of the typewriter key. Applied
Psycholinguistics, 23, 185-207.
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| WK13 |
Language Production
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Bock,
K. & Huitema, J. Language production: From
mind to mouth. Garrod, S. & Pickering, M. J.
(Eds). (1999). Language Processing (pp. 365-388).
Psychology Press.
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| WK14 |
Representations and the Lexicon
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Johnson-Laird,
P. N., Herrmann, D. J., & Chaffin, R. (1984). Only
connections: A critique of semantic networks.
Psychological Bulletin, 96, 292-315.
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| WK15 |
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