PSYU464: Psychology of Language
(Fall, 2004)
Time: Mon., Wed., & Thurs.
Place: 150 Dodge
Instructor:
Office: 443 Nightingale Hall (NI)
Phone: (617) 373-3060
E-mail: msf@wjh.harvard.edu;
website: www.wjh.harvard.edu/~msf
Office Hours: by appointment
Textbook: Carroll,
D.W. (2004). Psychology
of language (4th ed.).
Exams: There
will be 3 non-cumulative short answer exams.
Grading: Each exam will count for 1/3 of your final
grade, which will be determined on a curve.
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Topic |
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Week 1: Sept. 8 |
Introduction |
Carroll, Chapters 1-3 |
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Week 2: Sept. 13 |
Speech Perception |
Carroll, Chapter 4 Miller, 1990 |
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Week 3: Sept. 20 |
Speech Perception |
Cutler et al., 1986 |
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Week 4: Sept. 27 |
Word Re |
Carroll, Chapter 5 Lively et al., 1994 |
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Week 5: Oct. 4 |
Word Re |
Forster, 1986 |
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Week 6: Oct. 11 (Test #1: Oct. 14) |
Bilingual Word Re |
Finkbeiner et al. (2004) |
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Week 7: Oct. 18 |
Lexical Access in Speech Production: Evidence from speech errors and reaction time studies |
Carroll, Chapter 8 |
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Week 8: Oct. 25 |
Lexical Access in Speech Production: Evidence from neuropsychology |
Nickels, L. (2001) |
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Week 9: Nov. 1 (Test #2: Nov. 4) |
Bilingual Lexical Access in Speech Production |
Finkbeiner & Gollan (in press) |
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Week 10: Nov. 8 (no class on 11/11) |
Language Acquisition: Early Phonology |
Carroll, Chapter 10 |
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Week 11: Nov. 15 |
Language Acquisition: Word learning |
Bloom, P. (1994) |
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Week 12: Nov. 22 (no class on 11/24 and 11/25) |
Language Acquisition:
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Carroll, Chapters 11 & 12 |
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Week 13: Nov. 29 |
Linguistic Relativity |
Carroll, Chapter 14; Finkbeiner, et al. (2002) |
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Week 14: Dec. 6 (Test #3: Dec. 8) |
Review on Monday for final exam on Wednesday |
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