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Psycholinguistics

Vorlesung (3 LP)
B.Sc.(CL), Pflichtveranstaltung
Leitung: Matthew Crocker and Pia Knoeferle

Mi 9-11Uhr, Geb. C7.2, Seminarraum
Lectures will be in English, readings will be mostly in English

Begin: 26.04.2006

Date of Exam: Wednesday, 26th July @ 9-11Uhr

Location: Musiksaal

Inhalt

Computational and theoretical linguistics have revealed how complex and ambiguous natural language is. Despite this, people are able to effortlessly and accurately produce and understand language, in "real time". Psycholinguistics is concerned with providing an explanation of how the human language processing system works, drawing on computational, theoretical, and experimental research methods. This course introduces the aims, current issues, theories, and exprimental methods of modern psycholinguistics. The course will focus on lexical and sentence level processing, introduce the basic concepts of experimental design and statistical analysis, present core experimental methods (such and reaction time studies, and eye-tracking), and discuss prevalent theories and computational models.

Date

Topic

26.4.2006

INTRO: Linguistic and biological foundations (PK/MC)

3.5.2006

INTRO: Human language processing (MC)

10.5.2006

INTRO: Theories of processing (MC)

17.5.2006

INTRO: Experimental methods I (PK)

24.5.2006

Sentence processing (MC)

31.5.2006 Experimental methods II (PK)

7.6.2006

Lexical processing Part 1 and Part 2 (PK/MC)

14.6.2006

Language production (AM)

21.6.2006

Computational models (MC)

28.6.2006

Situated language processing Part 1 and Part 2 (PK/MC)

5.7.2006

Language and embodiment (PK)

12.7.2006

Review lecture: Part 1 and Part 2 (MC/PK)

19.7.2006

Klausur

 

Additional Materials

Trees from the first assignment (9 May 2006)

Main Readings

Gerry T. M. Altmann. Ambiguity in Sentence Processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 2, Num. 4, 1988.

Max Coltheart. Modularity and Cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 3, Num. 3, 1999.

Matthew Crocker. Mechanisms for Sentence Processing. In: Garrod & Pickering (eds), Language Processing, Psychology Press, London, UK, 1999.

Edward Gibson and Neal Perlmutter. Constraints on Sentence Comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 2, Num. 7, 1988.

Barbara Hemforth and Lars Konieczny. Sätze und texte verstehen und produzieren. In: J. Müsseler & W. Prinz (eds), Allgemeine Psychology, Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 589-642, 2002.

Ken McRae, Michael Spivey-Knowlton, and Michael Tanenhaus. Modeling the Influence of Thematic Fit (and Other Constraints) in On-line Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 283-312, 1998.

Daniel Richardson and Michael Spivey. Eye-tracking.In: G. Wnek & G. Bowlin (eds), Encyclopedia of biomaterials and biomedical engineering. in press.

Willem J. M. Levelt. Spoken word production: A theory of lexical access. 2001.

Tanenhaus, M. K., Spivey-Knowlton, M. J., Eberhard, K. M., & Sedivy, J. C. (1995). Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. Science, 268, 1632-1634. [Not available on-line: see course folder in the Coli library]