jhhsu                                Psycholinguistics                          2005

Objectives:  This is an introductory course to Psycholinguistics.  Its objectives are:

[1]        You will be able to state the nature and scope of psycholinguistics after examining the five typical questions. (1) How can we describe the knowledge of the language that we can speak? (2) How do we perceive, comprehend, store, recall, and produce language? (3) How do we acquire the knowledge of language and the ability to use it? (4) How do we learn and use language to communicate ideas? (5) Do we share this ability to acquire and use language with other animals?

[2]        You will be able to design and conduct a psycholinguistic research after exploring the basic psycholinguistic constructs, approaches and methods.

Class Procedures: 

        You are expected to do assigned readings as preparation for class discussion. There will be lectures, and you will present reports in class. Your course grade will be based on your class participation, term paper and final examination.

Course Syllabus

[1]    Orientation:       (1) The nature and scope of psycholinguistics

                       (2) A brief history of psycholinguistics

[2]        Why are psychologists interested in grammar? Implications of linguistic theories for psychological processes of language comprehension and production.

        *Slobin: Chapter one (#1) pp.1-27

        *Carroll: Chapter 2, skip section on sign language.

        *Steinberg. "Semantic based grammar" pp.48-58

        Steinberg. "Chomsky's syntactic based grammar"

Strohner & Brose. "A cognitive systems approach to linguistic knowledge." Language Science, Vol 14, No. 1/2, 1992.

            Steinberg. "Grammar, speaker performance, and psychological reality"

        Fromkin, V. "The sentence patterns of language," (#3)

[3]        Psycholinguistic studies of sentence processing: perception and comprehension; some experimental demonstrations of the role of syntax in understanding speech; and linguistic approaches to the meanings and functions of sentence.

        *Carroll: Chapter 3, read up to Development of the processing system.

        *Gleason-Ratner: “Speech perception beyond a single segment,” pp. 136-147

        *Gleason-Ratner: “Words and meaning I,” pp. 159-181

        *Gleason-Ratner: “Words and meaning II,” 181-208

        Carroll. Chapter 4, skip section on written language.

        Carroll. Chapter 5: The internal lexicon.

            Taylor. Chapter 5. Sentence: comprehension and memory, pp. 117-143

        Slobin: Chapter 2, pp. 33-43 (#5)

        Slobin: "Psycholinguistic constraints on the form of grammar"

[4]        Psycholinguistic studies of sentence and text processing (I): comprehension and memory; processing models for speech comprehension and the nature of recoding in memory.

        *Clark: "Syntactic and semantic approaches to the construction process," (#6)

*Sachs, J.S. "Recognition memory for syntactic and semantic aspects of connected discourse." (#11)

        *Foss & Hakes: "Memory and Comprehension," pp. 133-155 (#10)

        *Taylor: chapter 3. (Discourse) Comprehension and memory, pp. 53-75

        Denhiere-Dubois. "Recent issues in semantics," ijp 78/5-2

        Clark & Clark: "Memory for substance," pp. 153-173 (#9)

[5]        How is knowledge stored? How is information encoded or recalled?

        *Schank & Abelson, "Scripts, Plans, and Knowledge" (#13)

        *Mandler-Johnson, "Remembrance of Things Parsed: Story Structure and                        Recall," Cognitive Psychology 9, 1977, pp. 111-135, 148-150. (#14)

Chafe, "The recall and verbalization of past experience." Current issues in linguistic theory.

Chafe, "The flow of thought and the flow of language." Discourse and syntax.

        Kintsch-Kintsch, "The role of schemata in text comprehension," ijp 78/5

        Allan Paivio. "Imagery, language, and semantic theory." ijp 78/5-2 [10]

[6]        Psycholinguistic studies of sentence processing (II): production of speech. How do we map out abstract thoughts onto a string of perceptible sounds? How is language processed with computers?

*Clark & Clark, "Plans for What to Say," pp. 237-258, in Psychology and Language. (#8)

*Gleason & Ratner, “Speech production: issues,” pp. 312-327, in Psycholinguistics.

*Gleason & Ratner, “Speech production: models,” pp.327-338, in Psycholinguistics.

        *O’Grady, Chapter 17, “Computational Linguistics,” pp. 663-698

Winegrad, T. "Artificial intelligence: when will computers understand people?"         Psychology Today, 1974, 7(12), 73-79 (#12)

        Taylor, "Sentence: basic syntax and production," pp. 98-115.

        Carroll, Chapter 8, skip section on sign language.

        Foss & Hakes, "Sentence production," pp. 172-201 (#7)

[7]        Biological foundations of language: anatomical special­iza­tions of the human speech apparatus; brain specialization for language; evidence from aphasia, dichotic listening, and split-brain studies. 

        *Taylor. "Language and brain" pp. 363-384

     *Curtis, et al. "The linguistic development of Genie." (#25)

*Tzeng, et al. "Processing Chinese logographs by Chinese brain damaged patients," in Graphonomics. pp. 357-374

           Slobin: "Biological foundations of language" (#24)

[8]               What does the child mean to say? Language before grammar: one-word utterances and their relation to sensory-motor intelligence. The growth of grammar. The emergence of grammar and the strategies for grammatical development. Development from surface (pivot) to "rich semantic" descriptions of early utterances. The development of inflections and word order, and so on.

            *Clark & Clark: "How young children use their utterances," 312-320 (#18), and

            +Taylor. "Phonological development," pp. 240-250

        *Taylor. "Syntactic development," pp. 290-325

        *Slobin: "Language development in the child," pp. 83-100 (#17)

        *Taylor. "Semantic and discourse skills," pp. 260-282

        *Carroll. Chapter 12: “Processes of Language Acquisition”

        *Gleason. “Theories of child language acquisition,” pp. 375-393

        Slobin: "Language development in the child," pp. 74-83 (#17)

        Bowerman: "Semantic factors" pp. 136-165 (#20)

Bowerman, M. "Semantic factors in the acquisition of rules for word use and        sentence construction," pp. 99-136 (#20)

  Slobin. "Cognitive pre-requisites for the development of grammar." (#21)

Bates et al. "The acquisition of performatives prior to speech," Merrill-Palmer     Quarterly, 1975, 21, 205-226 (#19)

Stark et al. "Vocal communication in the first 18 months of life." Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. Vol 36, 548-558, June 1993

[9]        Can chimpanzees learn human language? A detailed examination of the nature of language and its acquisition in the light of three different kinds of attempts to train chimpanzees to use a symbolic system for communication with human beings.

*Patterson, F. "Conversations with a Gorilla." National Geograph­ic, Vol. 15           No. 4, October 1978, pp. 438-465 (#37)

*Gardner: "Comparing the early utterances of child and chimpanzee." (#26)

*Premack: "Teaching Sarah to read," Why chimps can read. (#27)

Rumbaugh & Gill: "The mastery of language-type skills by the chimpanzee." Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences, '76, 280, 562-578 (#28)

[10]      Relations between language and thought. The role of verbal coding in memory; The Whorfian hypothesis of linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism from the current perspective of psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology; and the effects of literacy on thought and language use.

        *Slobin: chapter 6, "Language and cognition" (#29)

        *Steinberg: chapter 6: language and thought

*Rosch: "Linguistic relativity." Human communication: Theoretical explorations.    pp. 95-121 (#31)

Cook-Gumperz: “From oral to written culture: the transition to literacy” (#32)

Carston, Robyn. "Language and cognition," in Language: psychological and            biological aspects.

Optional

[11]      Experimental study of complex syntax and semantics in children:

        Hsu, J. A study of the development and acquisition of Chinese. (#35)

        Bloom, Lois. One Word at a Time, chapters 2, 5 (#36)

        Limber, J. "The genesis of complex sentences." (#23)

[12]      Language, cognitive development and schooling. Effects of langauge, literacy, and culture on the development of the child.

        Slobin: chapter 6, "Language and cognition" (#29)

Anderson, John R. “Acquisition of Cognitive Skill.” Psychological Review. 1982. Vol. 89, No. 4, 369-406 (#0)

        Cook-Gumperz: "From oral to written culture: the transition to literacy." (#32)

        Goody & Watt: "The consequences of literacy" (#30)

Vygotsky: "The prehistory of written language." Mind in society: the development of higher psychological processes. (#33)

Cole & Bruner: "Cultural differences and inferences about psychological               processes." American Psychologist, 1971, 26, 867-876 (#34)

A Selected Bibliography

Bloom, Lois. 1973. One Word at a Time. Mouton, The Hague.

Brown, Roger.  1976. A First Language: the Early Stages

Caplan, D., et al. (eds.) 1984.   Biological perspectives on language. MIT Press: Cambridge.

Caplan, David. 1980. Biological Studies of Menatal Processes. MIT Press.

Carroll, David. 1994. Psychology of Language. Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

Cheng, C. and Yang, M. 1989. "Lateralization in the visual perception of Chinese characters and words.” Brain and Language, 36, 669-689.

Clark & Clark. 1977. Psychology and Language. (Crane)

Cole, R.W. (ed.) Current issues in linguistic theory. Indiana University Press, 1977.

Cross and Polich. 1988. "Hemispheric differences for orthographic and phonological processing," Language, 35, 2, 301-312.

Cutler, Anne, (ed.) 1982. Slips of the Tongue and Language Production. Mouton Publishers: Amsterdam.

Dascal and Francozo. 1988/1989. "The pragmatic turn in psycholinguistics: problems and perspectives." Theoretical Linguistics, 15, 1/2, 1-23.

Dictrich and Graumann, (eds.) 1989. Language Processing in Social Context.

Eisler, Godman. Psycholinguistics: Experiments in Spontaneous Speech.

Ellis, R. 1986. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford University Press.

Ferguson & Slobin. Studies of Child Language Development

Fletcher and Garmen, (eds.) 1986. Language Acquisition: Studies in First Language Development. Cambridge University Press.

Foss & Hakes. Psycholinguistics.

Garman, Michael. 1990. Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press.

Garnham, A. 1985. Psycholinguistics: central topics. Methuen: London

Garrett, M.F. 1989. “Processes in Language Production.” Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey (vol. 3) Cambridge University Press.

Ginsburg & Opper. Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development: an Introduc­tion

Givon, T. (ed.) Discourse and Syntax. Academic Press, 1979.

Gleason & Ratner, (eds.) 1998. Psycholinguistics. Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

Glucksberg & Danks. Experimental Psycholinguistics: an Introduction

Gopnik, A. 1988. "Three types of early word: the emergence of social words, names and cognitive relational words in the one-word stage and their relation to cognitive development," First Language, 8, 1, 49-70.

Green, G.M. 1988. Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: London.

Halle-Bresnan-Miller, (eds.) Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality

Holland & Quinn, (eds.) 1987. Cultural Models in Language & Thought. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Hsu, Joseph H. 1996. A Study of the Stages of Development and Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese by Children in Taiwan. Taipei: The Crane Publishing Co.

Huxley & Ingram. 1971. Language Acquisition: Models and Methods. NY: Academic Press.

Ingram, David. 1989. First Language Acquisition: method, description, and explanation. Cambridge University Press.

Kempson, Ruth M. (ed.) 1989. Mental Representations: the interface between language and reality. Cambridge University Press.

Kess, Joseph. 1992. Psycholinguistics: Psychology, Linguistics, and the Study of Natural Language. Ammsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Lachter and Bever. 1988. "The relation between linguistic structure and associative theories of language learning: a constructive critique of some connectionist learning models." (Special issue: Connectionism and Symbol Systems). Cognition, 28, 1-2, 195-247.

Lenneberg & Lenneberg. Foundations of Language Development. vols. 1-2.

McNeill, D. 1970. The Acquisition of Language: the Study of Developmental Psycholinguistics

Marslen-Wilson, et al. 1988. "Lexical representations in spoken language omprehension," Language and Cognitive Processes, 3(1), 1-16.

Menyuk, Paula. 1971. The Acquisition and Development of Language.

Newmeyer, Frederick. (ed.) 1989. Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects.

Piaget, Jean. The Language and Thought of the Child

Rosenblatt, L.M. 1978. The Reader, the Text, the Poem: the Transactional Theory of the Literary Work. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Ill Univ. Press

Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana. Introduction to Psycholinguistics.

Smart & Smart, (eds.) Readings in Child Development and Relationships.

Smith and Locke, (eds.) 1988. The Emergent Lexicon: the child's development of a linguistic vocabulary. Academic Press: New York.

Steinberg, Danny. Psycholinguistics: Language, Mind and World

Stemberger, J. P. 1989. "Speech errors in early child language produc­tion," Journal of Memory and Language, 28, 164-88.

Taylor, Insup. 1990. Psycholinguistics: learning and using language. Prentice Hall.

Tzeng, Ovid, et al. “Processing Chinese Logographs by Chinese Brain Damaged Patients.” Graphonomics, Kao et al. (eds.) Amsterdam: Publishers, North Holland. 1986

Vetter and Howell. 1971. "Theories of language acquisition," Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1, 1, 31-64.

Vygotsky, Lev S. 1966. Thought and Language.

Zatorre, R. J. 1989. "On the representation of multiple languages in the brain: old problems and new directions," Brain and Language, 36, 127-147.

Journals

Applied Psycholinguistics

Developmental Psychology

Internaltional Journal of Psycholinguistics

Journal of Child Language

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Language and Cognitive Processes

Memory and Cognition

Psychological Review  

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