PSYU464:    Psychology of Language (Fall, 2004) 

Time:  Mon., Wed., & Thurs. 10:30 – 11:35

Place:  150 Dodge

 

Instructor:   Matthew Finkbeiner, Ph.D.

                     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.

 

 

Topic

Reading

Week 1:  Sept. 8

Introduction

Carroll, Chapters 1-3

Week 2:  Sept. 13

Speech Perception

Carroll, Chapter 4

Miller, 1990

Week 3:  Sept. 20

Speech Perception

Cutler et al., 1986

Week 4:  Sept. 27

Word Recognition

Carroll, Chapter 5

Lively et al., 1994

Week 5:  Oct. 4

Word Recognition

Forster, 1986

Week 6:  Oct. 11

(Test #1:  Oct. 14)

Bilingual Word Recognition

Finkbeiner et al. (2004)

Week 7:  Oct. 18

Lexical Access in Speech Production:  Evidence from speech errors and reaction time studies

Carroll, Chapter 8

Week 8:  Oct. 25

Lexical Access in Speech Production:  Evidence from neuropsychology

Nickels, L. (2001)

Week 9:  Nov. 1

(Test #2:  Nov. 4)

Bilingual Lexical Access in Speech Production

Finkbeiner & Gollan (in press)

Week 10:  Nov. 8 (no class on 11/11)

Language Acquisition:  Early Phonology

Carroll, Chapter 10

Week 11:  Nov. 15

Language Acquisition:  Word learning

Bloom, P. (1994)

Week 12:  Nov. 22 (no class on 11/24 and 11/25)

Language Acquisition:  SLA and the Critical Period Hypothesis

Carroll, Chapters 11 & 12

Week 13:  Nov. 29

Linguistic Relativity

Carroll, Chapter 14;

Finkbeiner, et al. (2002)

Week 14:  Dec. 6

(Test #3:  Dec. 8)

Review on Monday for final exam on Wednesday