Language Production Seminar

Sept. 3 --Week 1

• overview of topics to be covered in this course

Sept. 10 -- Week 2

• Bock, K. (1995). Sentence production: From mind to mouth. In J. L. Miller, & P. D. Eimas (Eds.), Handbook of perception and cognition. Vol 11: Speech, language, and communication (pp. 181-216). Orlando, FL: Academic Press. (Ed.), The emergence of language. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum
• Vigliocco, G. & Hartsuiker, R.J. (in press). The interplay of Meaning, Sound & Syntax in Language Production. Psychological Bulletin.

Sept. 17 -- Week 3

• Dell, G. (1986). A Spreading-Activation Theory of Retrieval in Sentence Production. Psychological Review, Vol 93, No. 3, 283-321.
• Roelofs, A. (2000). WEAVER++ (from the Wheeldon book)

Sept. 24 -- Week 4

• Foygel and Dell 2000: Models of Impaired Lexical Access in Speech Production
• Ruml, Wheeler; Caramazza, Alfonso. An evaluation of a computational model of lexical access: Comment on Dell et al. (1997). Psychological Review. Vol 107(3), Jul 2000, 609-634.

Oct. 1 – Week 5

• 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.
• Branigan, Pickering, and Cleland (2000). Syntactic co-ordination in dialogue. Cognition 75 B13-25.
• Bock, K., & Griffin, Z. M. (2000). The persistence of structural priming: Transient activation or implicit learning? /Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, /*129*, 177-192.

Oct. 8– Week 6

• Eberhard, Kathleen M. The marked effect of numbeer on Subject-Verb Agreement. [Journal Article] Journal of Memory & Language. Vol 36(2), Feb 1997, 147-164.
• Vigliocco, G., Hartsuiker, R. J., Jarema, G., & Kolk, H. H. J. (1996). One or more labels on the bottles? Notional concord in Dutch and French. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11(4), 407-442.
• DISCUSS: Eberhard, Kathleen M. The accessibility of conceptual number to the processes of subject-verb agreement in English. [Journal Article] Journal of Memory & Language. Vol 41(4) Nov 1999, 560-578

Oct. 15 – Week 7

• Ferreira, Victor S. Is it better to give than to donate? Syntactic flexibility in language production. [Journal Article] Journal of Memory & Language. Vol 35(5), Oct 1996, 724-755.
• Schriefers, H; Teruel, E; Meinhausen, R. M. Producing simple sentences: Results from picture-word interference experiments. Journal of Memory & Language. Vol 39(4), Nov 1998, 609-632
• Clark, H. and Wasow, T. (1998). Repeating Words in Spontaneous Speech. Cognitive Psychology 37(3), 201-242.

Oct 22 –

• F. Ferreira (1993) Creation of prosody during sentence production. Psych Review, 100, 233-253.
• M. Steedman. Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface.

• Pierehumbert and Hirschberg: The Meaning of Intonational Contours in teh Interpretation of Discourse.
• Nakatani, Hirschberg, and Grosz: Discourse Structure on Spoken language: Studies on Speech Corpora.
• Wheeldon, L. 2000. Generating Prosodic Structure. In L. Wheeldon, (Ed), Aspects of Language production.

• Snedecker et al. 2000 (Word document)
• Warren, P., Schafer, A.J., Speer, S.R., & White, S.D. (2000). Prosodic resolution of prepostional phrase ambiguity in ambiguous and unambiguous situations. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 99, 5-33.

Oct 29 – Week 8

• Griffin, Zenzi M; Bock, Kathryn. What the eyes say about speaking. [Journal Article] Psychological Science. Vol 11(4), Jul 2000, 274-279.

Nov. 5 – Week 9

• Haskell, T. & MacDonald, M.C. (2001). Semantic and Phonological Factors in Subject-Verb Agreement. Manuscript submitted for publication.

• MacDonald, M.C. (1999). Distributional information in language comprehension, production, and acquisition: Three puzzles and a moral. In B. MacWhinney

Nov. 12– Week 10

• Postma, A. (2000). Detection of errors during speech production: A review of speech monitoring models. Cognition, 77, 97-131.
• Hartsuiker, R. J., & Kolk, H. H. J. (2001). Error monitoring in speech production: A computational test of the perceptual loop theory. Cognitive Psychology, 42(2), 113-157.

Nov. 19 – Week 11

Nov. 26 – Week 12

• Bock, J. Kathryn; Irwin, David E. Syntactic effects of information availability in sentence production. Journal of Verbal Learning & Verbal Behavior. Vol 19(4), Aug 1980, 467-484.
• Stallings, L. M., M. C. MacDonald, et al. (1998). "Phrasal Ordering Constraints in Sentence Production: Phrase Length and Verb Disposition in Heavy-NP Shift." 39(3): 392-417.
• Discuss: Arnold, J., T. Wasow, et al. (2000). "Heaviness vs. Newness: the effects of structural complexity and discourse status on constituent ordering." Language 76(1): 28-55

Dec. 3 – Week 13

• Schober, M. F., & Brennan, S. E. (In press). Processes of interactive spoken discourse: The role of the partner. In A. C. Graesser, M. A. Gernsbacher, & S. R. Goldman (Eds.), Handbook of discourse processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (Word document)
• Ferreira, Victor S; Dell, Gary S. Effect of ambiguity and lexical availability on syntactic and lexical production. [Journal Article] Cognitive Psychology. Vol 40(4), Jun 2000, 296-340
• DISCUSS: Arnold, Wasow, Asudeh, and Alrenga (2001). Avoiding Attachment Ambiguities: the Role of Constituent Ordering. Ms, U. Rochester.

Dec. 10 – Week 14

• Bard, Ellen Gurman; Anderson, Anne H; Sotillo, Catherine; Aylett, Matthew; Doherty-Sneddon, Gwyneth; Newlands, Alison. Controlling the intelligibility of referring expressions in dialogue. Journal of Memory & Language. Vol 42(1), Jan , US: Academic Press Inc. 2000, 1-22.
• Horton, William S; Keysar, Boaz. When do speakers take into account common ground? Cognition. Vol 59(1), Apr 1996, 91-117.
• Clark, H. H. and D. Wilkes-Gibbs (1986). "Referring as a collaborative process." Cognition 22: 1-39