BCS 152: Lecture Schedule

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Date	Topic	Instructor	Assignments	Readings
09/05	Intro to Psycholinguistics: Why we study language, what we study and how we study it \| pdf	Jaeger		Altmann 2006
09/10	Language understanding 1 (speech): Spoken Word Recognition \| pdf	Tanenhaus		Whitney, 155-168; Holt & Lotto 2008; Dahan 2010
09/12	Language production 1 (speech): Production & Perception of Sounds \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 1
09/17	Human language compared to animal communication \| pdf	Jaeger		Terrace et al 1979; Whitney, 9-21
09/19	Language understanding 2 (reading): Visual Word Recognition \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 2	Whitney Ch 6
09/24	Language understanding as inference under uncertainty \| pdf	Jaeger		McMurray 2002; Clayards et al 2008
09/26	Language understanding 3: Sentence comprehension	Jaeger	Short Assignment 3	Gibson & Pearlmutter 1998
10/01	Language and Memory \| pdf \| pdf2	Jaeger		Lewis et al 2006
10/03	EXAM 1
10/08	No Class
10/10	Language understanding 4: Multiple constraint satisfaction and computational models of sentence understanding \| pdf	Tanenhaus		Tanenhaus 2002
10/15	Language understanding 5: Pragmatics inference and scalar implicature \| pdf	Degen		Noveck & Reboul 2008
10/17	Language production 2 (speech): Words \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 4	Levelt 1999; Peterson & Savoy 1998
10/22	Language production 3 (speech): Sentences \| pdf	Jaeger		Griffin & Bock 2000
10/24	Language production 4 (speech): Communication and audience design \| pdf	Jaeger	Short Assignment 5
10/29	Language adaptation and implicit learning 1: Perceptual adaptation \| pdf	Jaeger		Kraljic et al 2008
10/31	Language adaptation and implicit learning 2: Syntactic adaptation	Jaeger	Short Assignment 6	Kamide 2012
11/05	EXAM 2
11/07	Multilingualism \| pdf	Pajak		Diamond 2010; Kovacs & Mehler 2009
11/12	Language Acquisition 1: What Needs to be Learned & When is it Learned? \| pdf	Jaeger		Pinker 1995
11/14	Language Acquisition 2: Differences and commonalities in language processing between children and adults \| pdf	Fedzechkina	Short Assignment 7	Trueswell & Gleitman 2007
11/19	Language Acquisition 3: Speech perception and learning \| pdf	Aslin		Kuhl 2004
11/21			Short Assignment 8
11/26	Language in the Brain 1: Lateralization & Brain Imaging \| pdf	Jaeger
11/28	Language in Open Brain Surgery	Pilcher	Short Assignment 9
12/03	Language and Autism \| pdf	Silverman		Paul 2009
12/05	Language & Music Cognition \| pdf	Marvin	Short Assignment 10	Patel 2008
12/10	Language in the Brain 2: Concepts and Categories in the Brain \| pdf	Mahon		Mahon et al 2009
12/12	EXAM 3

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