Course Calendar

 

 

DATE

TOPIC AND READING

 

Ch. 1 Themes of Psycholinguistics

January 15

Overview of psycholinguistics

January  20

Human and non-human communication

 

Ch 2. Linguistic Principles What language users must know

January 22

Basic grammatical concepts/Meaning

January 27

Research methods in psycholinguistics

 

Ch 3. Psychological Mechanisms

January 29

Overview of psychological mechanisms related to language

 

Ch 4.  The Perception of Language

February 3

The perception of Speech/ Speech perception demos

February 5

Models and Theories of speech perception

February 10

The perception of words and letters/Eye movements during reading

February 12

Models of word and letter perception

February 17

*****Exam 1 ****

 

Ch 5.  The Internal Lexicon

February 19

The representation of meaning/Network vs. semantic feature models

February 24

Lexical access & retrieval: word frequency, semantic priming and ambiguity

February 26

No Class, work on assignment

 

Ch 6.  Sentence processing

March  2

Parsing/ Parsing strategies

 

March 4

Comprehending sentences in context/Metaphors

 

Ch. 7 Discourse processing and memory

March 9

Inferences and coherence

March 11

The role of propositions in discourse processing

***March 11thth is last day to drop with a "W" ****

March 16

Situation models and schemata /Memory for discourse

March 18

*** Exam 2 ***

March 23,25

**Spring Break**

March 30

Educational implications for improving learning from text

 

Ch 10 Early Language Acquisition

April 1

The development of speech perception and production

April 6

First words, Early grammar

 

Ch 11 Later Language acquisition

April 8

Later language acquisition

April 13

Second language acquisition

 

Ch 12. Processes of Language Acquisition

April 15

Innate, cognitive and environmental factors in language acquisition

April 20

Innate, cognitive and environmental factors in language acquisition

 

Ch 13. Biological foundations of language

April 22

Brain Mechanisms and language/Language deficits

April 27

Localization of function

 

Ch 14.  Language, Culture and Cognition

April 29

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis/Linguistic Deterinism

May 4

Computers and language

May 6

*** Exam 3 ***

 

 

Note: The schedule is subject to change.  Changes will be announced in class and posted on the web.