For this Friday 11/30 and next Monday 12/3, please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 2000. Origins of language. In Aronoff, Mark and Rees-Miller, Janie (eds.), The Handbook of Linguistics, 1-18. Oxford: Blackwell.
Here are some links to the videos of the honeybee’s tail-wagging dance from today’s class: Bee Dance (Waggle Dance) Honeybee Waggle Dance Experiment
For this Wednesday 11/28, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Anderson, Stephen R. 2004. Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language, Chapter 10 (‘Language Instruction in the Laboratory’).
Starting next Monday 11/26, we will move on to our final course unit, which investigates some broader issues concerning language, species, and culture. We will begin by comparing human language to some of the better-studied animal communication systems. To prepare for next Monday’s lecture, please complete the following two readings, which are both available from …
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Here are the links to the aphasia videos that I had hoped to show in today’s class. You’ll recognize the audio portions, which we did manage to listen to…hopefully the video will help to better illustrate the exact nature of these language disturbances. Broca’s Aphasia Wernicke’s Aphasia Also, here is a video concerning anomic aphasia, …
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If you’d like to see the full version (~10 minutes) of the video on so-called “split-brain” individuals that we watched in today’s class, here’s a link: Two Brained Man Video
Your fourth in-class quiz will be on Monday, November 19. The quiz will consist of several short-answer responses, of the sort that you are now familiar with. There will be no longer, essay-style response this time. The quiz will cover the following topics, which we have encountered in class and in our readings: Spoken Language Comprehension …
For this Wednesday 11/14 and Friday 11/16, please read the following (the latter two can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): Chapter 11 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind Optional: Hickok, Gregory, Ursula Bellugi & Edward S. Klima. 2001. Sign language in the brain. Scientific American 284(6): 58-65. Optional: Sacks, Oliver. 2005, Oct. 31. …
If you’d like to listen again to our demonstrations of the “phoneme restoration effect” from class (or if you missed them the first time around), you can find links to the sound files at this page: Warren Perception Lab: Auditory Demonstrations We listened to the files entitled “Temporal Induction of Speech: Single Phonemic Restoration” and …
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For this Friday 11/9 and next Monday 11/12, please read the following two articles, which can both be downloaded from the “Readings” section: Fromkin, Victoria A. 1973. Slips of the tongue. Scientific American 229(6): 110-117. Motley, Michael T. 1985. Slips of the tongue. Scientific American 253(9): 116-127.