Introduction to Psycholinguistics

Administrivia

Overview

Psycholinguistics as a Scholarly Discipline

History and Methodology of Psycholinguistics

Physiological background

Speech Production and Recognition

Lexical and Semantic Processing

Sentence, Text, and Discourse Processing

Developmental Psycholinguistics

Second Language Acquisition

Bilingualism and Cross-cultural Phenomena

Courseware

Administrivia

Instructor

Danko.Sipka@asu.edu, http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka Ph.D. Psychology, Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Belgrade; M.A., Russian, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, Humboldt Post-Doc in Germany. Professor of Slavic languages at Arizona State University.  He has served as consultant to Translation Experts Ltd., London, Multilingual Solution, Microsoft Corporation, Glyph, Routledge, Global Solutions, Inxight, Comprehensive Language Center, University of Illinois and the New Mexico State University Computing Research Laboratory.  His numerous publications include the recent volumes A Bibliography of Serbo-Croatian Dictionaries: Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian Muslim (2000), Serbo-Croatian-English Colloquial Dictionary (2000), A Dictionary of New Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Words (2002). He has published over one hundred papers and reviews.

Synopsis

Students will get acquainted with the fundamental concepts and methodology of psycholinguistics. Each participant will be required to engage in a small-scale psycholinguistic research and present his/her experimental design, procedure, and findings in class.

Schedule

May 27 2:30-8:15 pm

May 28 2:30-8:15 pm

May 27-28 (1 hour): Overview

May 27-28 (1 hour): Psycholinguistics as a Scholarly Discipline

May 27-28 (2 hours): History and Methodology of Psycholinguistics

May 27-28 (1 hour): Physiological background, Speech Production and Recognition

May 27-28 (2 hours): Lexical and Semantic Processing

May 27-28 (1 hour): Sentence, Text, and Discourse Processing, Developmental Psycholinguistics

May 27-28 (2 hours): Second Language Acquisition

May 27-28 (1 hours): Bilingualism and Cross-cultural Phenomena

May 27-28 (0.5 hour): Final Exam

Coursework

11.5 hours of in-class contact. Students will be charged with making a brief presentation of their project within one of the in-class segments of the course

Grading

Class Participation (20%), Course Project (40%), Final Exam (40%)

Overview

Psycholinguistics as a Scholarly Discipline

Linguistics vs. Social and Behavioral Sciences

Linguistic Theories and Psycholinguistics

Field ABCD2

History and Methodology of Psycholinguistics

Pre-scientific Stage

Behaviorism

Post-behaviorism

Current Research and Experimental Techniques

Field ABCD1

Physiological background

Brain

Memory

Speech Organs

Field ABCD3

Speech Production and Recognition

The Speech Signal

Perception of Phonetic Segments

Models of Speech Perception

Field ABCD 9, ABCD 10

Lexical and Semantic Processing

Lexical Storage

Lexical Access

Semantic Processing

Field ABCD 4, ABCD 5

Sentence, Text, and Discourse Processing

Parsing

Ambiguity

Anaphor Resolution

On-line and Off-line Processing

Cohesion

Field ABCD 6, Field ABCD 11

Developmental Psycholinguistics

Theories of Child Language Acquisition

Emerging Phonology

Emerging Lexicon

Emerging Syntax

Aitchison (1998) 3-7

Second Language Acquisition

Theories of Second Language Acquisition

Proficiency Scales and Measures

Acquisition Factors

Larsen-Freeman & Long 7

Bilingualism and Cross-cultural Phenomena

Code-switching

Interference

Otherization

Language and thought

Semantic differential

http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/nsm/index.htm

Courseware

Books:

Field, John (2003) Psycholinguistics. A resource book for students, Routledge

Aitchison, Jean (1994) Words in the Mind, Blackwell, 2nd edition

Aitchison, Jean (1998) The Articulate Mammal, Routlege, 4th edition

Larsen-Freeman, Diane and Michael Long (1991) An Introduction to Second Language
       Acquisition Research, Longman

Internet resources:

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka/Ameter.zip

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/psycholing/

http://www.mpi.nl/world/tg/corpora/corpora.html