Course Calendar
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DATE |
TOPIC AND READING |
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Ch. 1 Themes of
Psycholinguistics |
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January 15 |
Overview of
psycholinguistics |
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January 20 |
Human and non-human
communication |
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Ch 2. Linguistic
Principles What language users must know |
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January 22 |
Basic grammatical
concepts/Meaning |
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January 27 |
Research methods in
psycholinguistics |
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Ch 3. Psychological
Mechanisms |
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January 29 |
Overview of psychological
mechanisms related to language |
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Ch 4. The Perception of Language |
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February 3 |
The perception of Speech/
Speech perception demos |
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February 5 |
Models and Theories of
speech perception |
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February 10 |
The perception of words and
letters/Eye movements during reading |
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February 12 |
Models of word and letter
perception |
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February 17 |
*****Exam 1 **** |
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Ch 5. The Internal Lexicon |
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February 19 |
The representation of
meaning/Network vs. semantic feature models |
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February 24 |
Lexical access &
retrieval: word frequency, semantic priming and ambiguity |
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February 26 |
No Class, work on assignment |
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Ch 6. Sentence processing |
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March 2 |
Parsing/ Parsing strategies |
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March 4 |
Comprehending sentences in context/Metaphors |
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Ch. 7 Discourse
processing and memory |
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March 9 |
Inferences and coherence |
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March 11 |
The role of propositions in
discourse processing ***March 11thth
is last day to drop with a "W" **** |
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March 16 |
Situation models and
schemata /Memory for discourse |
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March 18 |
*** Exam 2 *** |
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March 23,25 |
**Spring Break** |
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March 30 |
Educational implications for
improving learning from text |
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Ch 10 Early Language
Acquisition |
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April 1 |
The development of speech
perception and production |
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April 6 |
First words, Early grammar |
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Ch 11 Later Language
acquisition |
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April 8 |
Later language acquisition |
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April 13 |
Second language acquisition |
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Ch 12. Processes of
Language Acquisition |
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April 15 |
Innate, cognitive and
environmental factors in language acquisition |
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April 20 |
Innate, cognitive and
environmental factors in language acquisition |
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Ch 13. Biological
foundations of language |
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April 22 |
Brain Mechanisms and
language/Language deficits |
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April 27 |
Localization of function |
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Ch 14. Language, Culture and Cognition |
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April 29 |
The Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis/Linguistic Deterinism |
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May 4 |
Computers and language |
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May 6 |
*** Exam 3 *** |