Language Processes: Schedule and Readings

Date

Readings
Topic
Events
Thurs. Jan. 16

Introduction

Tues. Jan 21
Ch. 1
Language and psycholinguistics

Thurs. Jan 23

Psychology and psycholinguistics

Tues. Jan 28
Ch 2.
Speech Perception
Speech lab
Thurs. Jan 30
Fraunfelder & Tyler (1987)
Models of speech perception

Tues. Feb 4
Ch 3. McClelland & Rumelhart (1981)
Word and Letter Perception

Thurs. Feb 6
Rayner & Pollatsek (1989)
Models of word perception /eye movements

Tues. Feb 11
Ch 4. Olson(1994) Shaywitz(1996)
Dyslexia

Thurs. Feb 13
Ch 5.
Parsing and Syntax

Tues. Feb 18
Ch. 6
The structure of the lexicon

Thurs. Feb 21
McNamara (1992)
Lexical Access
Exam 1 handed out
Tues. Feb 26

Lexical Access

Thurs. Feb 28

NO CLASS
Exam 1 Due
Tues. Mar 3-7 Spring Break
Note: Last day to drop with a "W" is March 10th






Tues. Mar 11
Ch. 7
Sentence Comprehension

Thurs. Mar 13
TBA
Coherence in reading

Tues. Mar 18
McKoon & Ratcliff (1992)
Inferences

Thurs. Mar 20

Memory for texts

Tues. Mar 25
Kintsch (1988)
Modeling text comprehension

Thurs. Mar 27
TBA
Modeling text comprehension

Tues. Apr 1
Carpenter, Miyake & Just (1994)
The role of working memory
Paper/Project proposal due
Thurs. Apr 3
Fincher-Kiefer et al. (1988),
Prior knowledge and schemata

Tues. Apr 8
McNamara, Kintsch, Songer & Kintsch (1996)
Prior knowledge and schemata

Thurs. Apr 10
Britton & Gulgoz (1991)
Educational Implications for text learning

Tues. Apr 15
Perfetti (1994)
Reading ability and learning to read

Thurs. Apr 17
Ch. 10 Hardin & Banaji (1993)
Language and thought

Tues. Apr 22
Ch. 11 Werker (1995)
Language Acquisition

Thurs. Apr 24
TBA
Language Acquisition
Exam 2 handed out
Tues. Apr 29
Landauer, Foltz & Laham; Foltz, Kintsch & Landauer
Computational Psycholinguistics

Thurs. May 1

Computational Psycholinguistics
Exam 2 Due
Tues. May 6

Final Project presentations

Thurs. May 8

Final Project presentations


References for papers

Britton, B. K., & Gulgoz, S. (1991). Using Kintsch's computational model to improve instructional text: Effects of repairing inference calls on recall and cognitive structures. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83, 329-345.

Carpenter, P. A., Miyake, A., & Just, M. A. (1994). Working memory constraints in comprehension: Evidence from individual differences, aphasia, and aging. In M. A. Gernsbacher, (Ed.) The Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Foltz, P. W., Kintsch, W. & Landauer, T. K. Latent Semantic Analyses for predictions of text coherence. Discourse Processes.

Fraunfelder, U. H. & Tyler, L. K. (1987). The process of spoken word recognition: An introduction. Cognition, 25, 1-20.

Hardin, C. & Banaji, M. (1993). The influence of language on thought. Social Cognition. 11(2), 277-308.

Kintsch, W. (1988). The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: A construction-integration model. Psychological Review, 2, 95, 163-182.

Kintsch, W., & Vipond, D. (1979). Reading comprehension and readability in educational practice and psychological theory. In L. G. Nilsson (Eds.), Perspectives on Memory Research. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Landauer, T. K, Foltz, P. W. & Laham, D. An introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis. Discourse Processes.

McClelland, J. L. & Rumelhart, D. E. (1981). An Interactive Activation Model of context effects in letter perception: Part 1. An account of basic findings. Psychological Review, 88(5), pp. 375-407.

McKoon, G., & Ratcliff, R. (1992). Inference during reading. Psychological Review, 99, 440-466.

McNamara, T. P. (1992). Theories of Priming: 1 Associative Distance and lag. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1173-1190.

McNamara, D. Kintsch, E., Songer, N. & Kintsch, W. (1996). Are good texts always better? Interaction of text coherence, background knowledge, and levels of understanding in learning from text. Cognition and Instruction, 14(1), 1-42.

Olson, R. K. (1994). Language Deficits in "Specific Reading Disability". In M. A. Gernsbacher, (Ed.) The Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Perfetti, C. A. (1994). Psycholinguistics and reading ability. In M. A. Gernsbacher, (Ed.) The Handbook of Psycholinguistics. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Rayner, K. & Pollatsek, A. (1989) The Psychology of Reading. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Chapter 4, The work of the eyes)

Shaywitz, S. E. (1996). Dyslexia. Scientific American. November.

Werker, J. (1995). Exploring developmental changes in cross-language speech perception. In L. Gleitman & M. Liberman (Eds.) An invitation to Cognitive Science, Volume 1: Language. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.