Psych/Ling 413
Psychology of Language
Spring, 2012
Office: Room 490, Science I
Phone: 294-7532
Email: almorris@iastate.edu
Class
meeting: T-TH 12:40-1:55 pm
Coover
1016
Office
Hours: T-TH 10:00-11:30 am
Class presentation handout HERE
Presentation grading chart HERE
Tentative schedule of topics and readings:
Note. This schedule is only tentative. We may get more heavily involved in discussing some topics, so they make take a bit more time; other topics may take less time.
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Week 1 - Jan 10-12 Introduction
Language in animals? Links to videos (includes Kanzi)
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Reading Ch. 1-3 Miller, G.A. (1990). The place of language in a scientific psychology. Psychological Science, 1, 7-14 Ch. 13 pp 379-392
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Week 2 - Jan 17-19 **BEGIN WEEKLY QUIZZES**
Articulatory phonetics (U of Iowa)
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Ch. 4 pp. 68-90 McGurk,
H., & MacDonald, J. (1976). Hearing lips and seeing voices.
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Week 3 - Jan 24-26 Perception of Language, cont. Spoken_Word_Recognition_slides
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Ch. 4 pp. 91-101 Daneman,
M., & Reingold, E. (1993). What eye fixations tell us about
phonological
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Week 4 - Jan 31-Feb 2 The Internal Lexicon
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Ch. 5
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Week 5 - Feb 7-9 The Internal Lexicon, continued
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)
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Rayner,
K., & Frazier, L. (1989). Selection mechanisms in reading lexically
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Week 6 - Feb 14-16 Sentence Comprehension
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Ch. 6 Ferreira, F., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferraro, V. (2002). Good-enough representations in language comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 11-15.
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Week 7 - Feb 21-23 Figurative Language
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Glucksberg, S. (1998). Understanding metaphors. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7, 39-43.
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Week 8 - Feb 28-Mar 1
Discourse Comprehension
Language Production
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Ch. 7 pp. 157-175 Van Den Broek, P., Linzie, B., Fletcher, C., & Marsolek, C. J. (2000). The role of causal discourse structure in narrative writing. Memory & Cognition, 28, 711-721.
Ch. 8 pp. 191-211 Ferreira, V. S., & Griffin, Z. M. (2003). Phonological influences on lexical (mis)selection. Psychological Science, 14, 86-90. |
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Week 9 - Mar 6-8 Conversation
Issues
in Language Acquisition
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Ch. 9 pp. 224-234 Wilkes-Gibbs, D., & Clark, H. H. (1992). Coordinating beliefs in conversation. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 183-194. CLICK HERE
Ch. 12 Newman, R. S. (2008). The level of detail in infants' word learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 229-232.
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Week 10 - Mar 13-15 SPRING BREAK!!!!
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Week 11 - Mar 20-22 ***PAPER TOPIC DUE 3/22*** Bilingualism
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Ch. 11 pp. 310-323 Spivey,
M. J., & Marian, V. (1999). Cross-talk between native and second
languages: Partial activation of an
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Week 12 - Mar 27-29 Language and Brain |
Ch. 13 pp. 354-379 Bellugi,
U., Jarvinen-Pasley, A., Doyle, T. F., Reilly, J., Reiss, A. L.,
& Korenberg, J. R. (2007). Affect, social behavior, and the
brain in Williams Syndrome. Current
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Week 13 - Apr 3-5 Language and Brain, Continued Hemispherectomy video (start at 21:27)
Language and Thought
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Ch. 14 Boroditsky, L. (2001). Does language shape thought?: Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time. Cognitive Psychology, 43, 1-22.
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Week 14 - Apr 10-12 Student Presentations
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Nation, Duff, Haase, Rueschenberg Curran, Wenck, Boyd, Frana |
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Week 15 - Apr 17-19 Student Presentations
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Arnold, Anderson, Grissom, Dawson, Donaldson Frundle, Brady, Sipfle, Tazzioli, Malone, Ohge |
Week 16 - Apr 24-26 ***TERM PAPERS DUE 4/26*** Student Presentations
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Pappas, Howie, Waechter, Korpi, Peters Parmley, Peterson, Tapp, Hasenmiller, Pilney |
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QUIZ info Median quiz average = 7.42
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8.5-10 A 8-8.49 B+ 6.75-8 B 6.25-6.75 B- 5.5-6.25 C+ 4.0-5.5 C < 4.0 D
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Class presentation handout HERE Presentation grading chart HERE
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