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Tentative Schedule. For updates check the on-line course web page.
| Class | Date | Topic | Reading | |
| 1 | W: Jan 15 | Introduction | Short written assignment: tape record a three minute conversation and transcribe it. Make a written list of interesting phenomena. | |
| 2 | M: Jan 20 | NO CLASS - MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY | ||
| 3 | W: Jan 22 | Major issues in psycholinguistics |
Lenneberg, E.H. (1969). On explaining language: The development of language in children can best be understood in the context of developmental biology. Science, 164, 635-643. Miller, George A. (1990) The Role of language in a Scientific Psychology. Psych Science 1(1): 7-14. Short written assignment due. |
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| 4 | M: Jan 27 | Visual Word Recognition |
Van Orden, Guy (1987). A ROWS is a ROSE: Spelling, sound, and reading. Memory and Cognition 15(3), 181-198. Reisberg, Daniel. Cognition. p. 80-81, about Interactive Activation model |
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| 5 | W: Jan 29 | Reading |
Castles, Anne, and Coltheart, Max (1993). Varieties of developmental dyslexia. Cognition 47, 149-180. Gernsbacher, Morton Ann (1993). Less skilled readers have less efficient suppression mechanisms. Psychological Science, 4(5), 294:298. |
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| 6 | M: Feb 3 | Language comprehension and modularity | Fodor, Jerry A. (1985). Precis of The Modularity of Mind. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Vol 8(1): 1-42. | |
| 7 | W: Feb 5 | Speech perception |
Elman, J. L. and McClelland, J. L. (1988). Cognitive Penetration of the Mechanisms of Perception: Compensation for coarticulation of lexically restored phonemes., Journal of Memory and Language 27,143-165. McGurk, H., and J. MacDonald. 1976. Hearing lips and seeing voices. Nature 264:746-748. |
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| 8 | M: Feb 10 | Spoken word recognition I | Swinney, David A. Lexical access during sentence comprehension: (Re)consideration of context effects. [Journal Article] Journal of Verbal Learning & Verbal Behavior. Vol 18(6), Dec 1979, 645-659. | |
| 9 | W: Feb 12 | Spoken word recognition II | Marslen-Wilson. (1984). Function and Process in Spoken Word Recognition: A Tutorial Review. | |
| 10 | M: Feb 17 | Sentence Processing I: encapsulated parser |
Tanenhaus, Michael K; Spivey-Knowlton, Michael J; Eberhard, Kathleen M; Sedivy, Julie C. (1995). Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension.] Science, 268(5217), 1632-1634. Rayner, Keith; Carlson, Marcia; Frazier, Lyn. (1983). The interaction of syntaxand semantics during sentence processing: Eye movements in the analysis of semantically biased sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning & Verbal Behavior, 22(3), 358-374. Assignment 1 handed out |
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| 11 | W: Feb 19 | Sentence Processing II: Referential Hypothesis | Altmann, G. and Steedman, M. (1988). Interaction with context during human sentence processing. Cognition, 30, 191-238. | |
| 12 | M: Feb 24 | Sentence Processing III: the Constraint-Based Hypothesis | Garnsey, Susan M; Pearlmutter, Neal J; Myers, Elizabeth; Lotocky, Melanie A. (1997). The contributions of verb bias and plausibility to the comprehension of temporarily ambiguous sentences. Journal of Memory & Language, 37(1), 58-93 | |
| 13 | W: Feb 26 | Development of processing abilities |
Trueswell, J. C., Sekerina, I., Hill, N.M., and Logrip, M. L. (1999). The kindergarten-path effect: studying on-line sentence processing in young children, Cognition 73(2), 89-134. Assignment 1 due |
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| 14 | M: Mar 3 | Return to major issues: rules vs.probabilistic approaches; |
Pinker (1992) Rules of Language. Science. Seidenberg, Mark S. (1997). Language Acquisition and Use: Learning and Applying Probabilistic Constraints. Science 275:1599-1603. |
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| 15 | W: Mar 5 | MIDTERM | ||
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| 16 | M: Mar 17 | Language production: lexical retrieval |
Dell, G. (1988.) Retrieval of Phonological Forms in Production. Journal of Memory and Language 27, 124-142. Schriefers, Herbert; Meyer, A. S; Levelt, W. J. Exploring the time course of lexical access in language production: Picture-word interference studies. Journal of Memory & Language. Vol 29(1), Feb 1990, 86-102 |
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| 17 | W: Mar 19 | Language production: syntax | Bock, Kathryn; Loebell, Helga; Morey, Randal. From conceptual roles to structural relations: Bridging the syntactic cleft. Psychological Review. Vol 99(1), Jan 1992, 150-171. | |
| 18 | M: Mar 24 | Prosody in production and comprehension |
Snedeker, J., L. Gleitman, et al. (2000). Prosodic choice: effects of speaker awareness and referential context. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Watson and Gibson. (2003). Intonational phrasing and syntactic structure. Manuscript. |
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| 19 | W: Mar 26 | Conversation | Schober, M. F., & Clark, H. H.(1989). Understanding by addressees and overhearers. Cognitive Psychology, 21, 211-232. | |
| 20 | M: Mar 31 | Discourse Processing: given vs. new and accenting |
Haviland, Susan E., and Clark, Herbert H. (1974). What's New? Acquiring New Information as a Process in Comprehension. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 13, 512-521. Dahan, Delphine; Tanenhaus, Michael K; Chambers, Craig G. Accent and reference resolution in spoken-language comprehension. (2002)Journal of Memory & Language, 47(2), 292-314. |
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| 21 | W: Apr 2 | NO CLASS - CUNY | ||
| 22 | M: Apr 7 | Discourse processing: reference processing | Arnold, J. E., Fagnano, M., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (In press). Disfluencies signal theee, um, new information. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. | |
| 23 | W: Apr 9 | Production of referring expressions |
Brennan, Susan E. Centering attention in discourse. (1995). Language & Cognitive Processes,10(2), 137-167. Assignment 2 handed out. |
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| 24 | M: Apr 14 | Discourse representation |
Bower, Gordon H; Morrow, Daniel G. (1990). Mental models in narrative comprehension. Science. Vol 247(4938), 44-48. Bransford, Barclay, and Franks. (1972). "Sentence Memory". Cognitive Psychology. Vol 3, 193-209. |
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| 25 | W: Apr 16 | Audience Design Keysar, Boaz; Barr, Dale J; Balin, Jennifer A; Brauner, Jason S. (2000). Taking perspective in conversation: The role of mutual knowledge in comprehension. Psychological Science. Vol 11(1), 32-38. | ||
| 26 | M: Apr 21 | Language and Thought |
Roger Brown and Eric Lenenberg. (1954). A study in Language and Cognition. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 49. 454-462. Li, Peggy, and Gleitman, Lila. (In press). Turning the tables: Language and Spatial Reasoning. |
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| 27 | W: Apr 23 | Brain and Language |
Ojeman, George A. Cortical Organization of Language. The Journal of Neuroscience, 11(8): 2281-2287. Damasio, Hanna, Grabowski, Thomas J., Tranel, Daniel, Hichwa, Richard D., and Damasio, Antonio R.(1996). A neural basis for lexical retrieval. Nature, 380, 499-505. Neville, Helen J., Bavelier, Daphne, Corina, David, Rauschecker, Josef, Karni, Avi, Lalwani, Anil, Braun, Allen, Clark, Vince, Jezzard, Peter, and Turner, Robert. (1998). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 95: 922-929. Assignment 2 due |
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| 28 | M: Apr 28 | Looking to the Future | MacDonald, Maryellen C. (1999). Distributional information in language comprehension, production, and acquisition: Three puzzles and a moral. In MacWhinney, Brian (Ed), The emergence of language. (pp. 177-196). | |
| 29 | W: Apr 30 | REVIEW FOR FINAL | ||
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