BCS 152: Lecture Schedule

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Date	Topic	Instructor	Assignments	Readings
08/31	Intro to psycholingustics: why we study language, what we study, and how we study it \| pdf	Jaeger		Whitney Ch 2; Altmann 2006
09/07	Human language compared to animal communication \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 1	Terrace et al 1979; Whitney, 9-21
09/12	Language production 1 (speech): Production & Perception of Sounds \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 2	Whitney, 141-155;
09/14	Language understanding 1 (speech): Spoken Word Recognition \| pdf	Tanenhaus		Whitney, 155-168; Dahan 2010; Holt & Lotto 2008
09/19	Language understanding 2 (reading): Visual Word Recognition \| pdf \| Optional Slides	Jaeger	Short Assignment 3	Whitney Ch 6
09/21	Language understanding as inference under uncertainty \| pdf	Jaeger		McMurray 2002; Clayards et al 2008
09/26	Producing and recognizing sign language \| pdf	Supalla		Poizner et al 1987
09/28	Language & memory \| pdf \| additional materials	Jaeger		Lewis et al 2006
10/03	EXAM 1
10/05	Language understanding 3: Sentence processing and multiple constraint satisfaction \| pdf	Tanenhaus		Tanenhaus; Whitney Ch 7
10/12	Language understanding 4: Multiple constraint satisfaction and computational models of sentence understanding \| pdf1 \| pdf2	Jaeger	Short Assignment 4	Gibson & Pearlmutter 1998; Arnold et al 2003
10/17	Language understanding 5: Pragmatics inference and scalar implicature \| pdf	Degen	Short Assignment 5
10/19	Language production 2 (speech): Words \| pdf	Jaeger/Buz
10/24	Language production 3 (speech): Sentences \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 6	Griffin & Bock 2000; Whitney, 271-284
10/26	Language production 4 (speech): Communication and audience design \| pdf	Gorman		Shintel & Keysar 2009
10/31	Individual differences in language understanding \| pdf	Farmer		Farmer et al 2011
11/02	EXAM 2
11/07	Language adaptation & implicit learning 1: perceptual adaptation \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 7	Kraljic et al 2008; OPTIONAL: Norris et al 2003
11/09	Language adaptation and implicit learning 2: Syntactic adaptation \| pdf	Jaeger		Traxler 2008
11/14	Language acquisition 1: what needs to be learned & when is it learned? \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 8	Pinker 1995
11/16	Language acquisition 2: differences & commonalities in language processing between children & adults \| pdf	Fedzechkina		Trueswell & Gleitman
11/21	Language acquisition 3: speech perception & learning \| pdf	Aslin	Short Assignment 9	Kuhl 2004
11/28	Language in the brain 1: lateralization & brain imaging \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 10	Price 2006; Bates 2005, Section 1-3 (optional)
11/30	Language in the brain 2: concepts & categories in the brain \| pdf	Mahon		Mahon et al 2009
12/05	Language & music cognition \| pdf	Marvin		Patel Ch 5
12/07	Language in open brain surgery	Pilcher
12/12	EXAM 3 \| Review slides

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