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.
Here are the links to the “McGurk Effect” videos that we watched in Monday’s class. If you found that the effect wasn’t so clear for you in class, try watching the videos again up close, and be sure to watch the speakers’ mouths: McGurk Effect #1 McGurk Effect #2
For next Monday 11/5 and Wednesday 11/7, please read pgs. 203-222 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Whitney, Paul. 1998. The Psychology of Language, Chapter 7 (‘Sentence Processing’). I’ve also uploaded a very short excerpt from an earlier chapter of this book, where the author defines …
As you undoubtedly know, our class meeting for this morning has been cancelled. In light of this cancellation, I have decided to postpone our in-class quiz until this Friday, Nov. 2. This way, you will still have a chance in Wednesday’s class to ask any study questions. So, our updated schedule for this week is: …
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Your third in-class quiz will be on Wednesday, October 31 Friday, November 2. The quiz will consist of several short-answer responses (more than on your previous quizzes); 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: The normal …
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For next Monday (10/29) this Wednesday (10/31), please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Bickerton, Derek. 1983. Creole languages. Scientific American 249(8): 116-122.
For this Friday 10/26, please read the following: Chapter 7 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind pgs. 126-130 of Chapter 10 of the Jackendoff book I have also posted the following optional reading at the “Readings” section of this website: Senghas, Ann, Sotaro Kita & Asli Özyürek. 2004. Children creating core properties of language: Evidence …
For Wednesday, 10/24, please read the following article, which may be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Newport, Elissa L. 2002. Critical periods in language development. In Lynn Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 737-740. London: Macmillan. I have also made the following optional reading available for download: Gould, James L. & Peter Marler. …
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