Readings for Psych/Ling 347 Autumn 2009
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9/30
Introduction to Psychology of Language
Pinker, Chapter 1
Definition
of instinct from Wikipedia
Language
and National Identities (Georgia)
Language
and National Identities (French Academy)
10/2 Origins of human language; language change
Pinker,
Chapter 8, pp 248-264
Halliday, M. A. K.
(1989). Spoken and Written Language.
New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter
1: Development of speech (pp. 1-11).
Blater, M. (2001).
First gene linked to speech identified. Science, 294, #5540.
Blater, M.
(2002). “Speech gene” tied to modern
humans. Science, 297, #5584.
10/5 Origins of writing
Halliday, M. A. K.
(1989). Spoken and Written Language.
New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 2: Writing Systems (pp. 12-28).
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Useful
sites for additional information:
Omniglot.com – a great site!
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/definition.htm
Wikipedia: Writing systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system
10/7 Physics
and physiology of speech
Pinker, Chapter 6,
pp. 153-165
Sundberg, J. (1991).
The acoustics of the singing voice. In
W. Wang (Ed.), The emergence of language:
Development and evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman. (pp. 104-116).
10/9 Phonetics and phonology
Pinker, Chapter 6,
pp. 165-178
Yule,
G. (1996). The study of language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 5-6.
10/12 Speech
perception
Pinker, Chapter 6, pp. 178-189
Identifying
dialects across the USA
10/19 Speech
production
Dell,
G. (1995). Speaking and misspeaking. In An
Invitation to Cognitive Science: Language.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
New
York Times article: "Traffic jams in brain networks may result in verbal
stumbles"
10/21 Words: morphemes and morphology
Pinker, Chapter 5
Field, J. (2003). Psycholinguistics: A research book for
students. (Section A, “Words”, pp. 10-21).
London: Routledge.
10/26 Word
processing
Pinker,
Chapter 9, pp 209-210
10/28 Word
processing
10/30 Sentences: syntax
Pinker, Chapter 4
Yule,
G. (1996). The study of language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 7-10.
11/2 Sentence processing
Pinker, Chapter 7
11/4 Sentence
processing
Pinker, Chapter 7
11/6 Semantics
and discourse
Yule, G
(1996) -- Semantics, Chapter 11
11/9 Language
development
Pinker, Chapter 9
Saffran, J. R. (2003) Statistical language learning. Current
Directions in Psychological Research.
11/13 Language
development
Pinker, Chapter 9
11/18 Language
and Brain: language disorders
Pinker, Chapter
10, 302-330
Ashcraft, M.
(1993). A personal case history of
transient anomia. Brain and Language,
44, 47-57.
Kolb,
B., & Whishaw, I.Q. (1996). Disorders of Language. In Fundamentals
of Neuropsychology, pp.405-412. New York: Freeman.
11/20 Language
and Brain: language disorders
11/23 Language
and Brain: language disorders
11/30 Animal
communication
NY
Times article: "Chimp talk debate: Is it really language?"
Vervet Monkey alarm calls: cool audiovisual stuff
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/media/vervetcalls.html
Honey bees and the bee dance
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/ic/dance/dance.html
White-crowned
sparrow “sequence learning” experiment
by Gary Rose:
University
of Utah Text report: http://www.utah.edu/unews/releases/04/dec/birdsong.html
NPR Audio Report: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4209322
12/2 Animal
communication
12/4 Origins
revisited
Pinker, Chapter 10, pp 330-339
Bickerton, D.
(1991). Creole language. In W.
Wang (Ed.), The emergence of
language: Development and evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman (pp. 59-69).
NY
Times article: “Deaf children’s ad hoc language evolves and instructs”
12/7 Language and Thought
Pinker Chapter 3 (pp 48-57)
Pica science paper
Optional reading: Choi
paper
12/9
Weird brain stuff
TBD