Class

Date

Topic

Reading

1

W: Jan 14

Introduction

Short written assignment: tape record a three minute conversation and transcribe it.  Make a written list of interesting phenomena.

2

M: Jan 19

NO CLASS – MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

3

W: Jan 21

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.

4

M: Jan 26

Conversation

Schober, M. F., & Clark, H. H.(1989). Understanding by addressees and overhearers.  Cognitive Psychology, 21, 211-232.

5

W: Jan 28

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.

6

M: Feb 2

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.

7

W: Feb 4

Production of referring expressions

Brennan, Susan E. Centering attention in discourse. (1995). Language & Cognitive Processes,10(2), 137-167.

Research project assignment handed out.

8

M: Feb 9

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.

9

W: Feb 10

Audience Design

[Presentation Notes]

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.

10

M: Feb 16

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.

Group names and project ideas due.

11

W: Feb 18

Language production: lexical retrieval

Dell, G. (1988.)  Retrieval of Phonological Forms in Production.  Journal of Memory and Language 27, 124-142.

12

M: Feb 23

Research project design

In-class meetings with each group about experiment design.

13

W: Feb 25

Prosody in production and comprehension

[Presentation Notes]

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.

14

M: Mar 1

Language production: syntax

Branigan, H. P., Pickering, M. J., & Cleland, A. A.  (2000).  Syntactic co-ordination in dialogue.  Cognition, 75, B13-25.

W: Mar 3

MIDTERM

M: Mar 8

SPRING BREAK

15

W: Mar 10

16

M: Mar 15

Visual Word Recognition

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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

17

W: Mar 17

Reading

Castles and Coltheart.

Gernsbacher, Morton Ann. Less skilled readers have less efficient suppression mechanisms. Psychological Science, 4(5), 294:298.

18

W: Mar 22

Language comprehension and modularity

Fodor, Jerry A. (1985). Precis of The Modularity of Mind. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Vol 8(1): 1-42.

19

M: Mar 24

Discuss research project results

[T.B.A.]

Data sheets and questions due

20

M: Mar 29

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.

Guest Lecture by Dr. Michael Tanenhaus

21

W: March 31

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.

22

M: Apr 5

Spoken word recognition II

Marslen-Wilson.  (1984).  Function and Process in Spoken Word Recognition: A Tutorial Review.

First Draft of Written Assignment due

23

W: Apr 7

Sentence Processing I: encapsulated parser

Tanenhaus encyclopedia article.

Rayner, Keith; Carlson, Marcia; Frazier, Lyn. (1983). The interaction of syntax and semantics during sentence processing: Eye movements in the analysis of semantically biased sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning & Verbal Behavior, 22(3), 358-374.

24

M: Apr 12

Sentence Processing II: Referential Hypothesis

Altmann, G. and Steedman, M.  (1988).  Interaction with context during human sentence processing.  Cognition, 30, 191-238.

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.

25

W: Apr 14

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

26

M: Apr 19

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.

27

W: Apr 21

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.

28

M: Apr 26

Language and Thought

Boroditsky, L. (In press).  Linguistic Relativity.  To Appear in the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MacMillan Press.

Li, Peggy, and Gleitman, Lila. (In press).  Turning the tables: Language and Spatial Reasoning.

29

W: Apr 28

REVIEW

Review for final exam.

Final draft of written assignment due.