PSY 369: Psycholinguistics
Review for Exam 3
Exam coverage
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Chapters
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10 Language development: early
11 language development: later
12 Language development: processes and debates
13 Brain and Language
14 Language and thought
Language development: Some terms
Assimilation
Babbling
categorical perception
child-directed speech
Coalescence
Codability
Cognitive constraints
Cooing
Critical period hypothesis
Fast mapping
Feral/isolated children
'fis' phenomenon
Holophrases
Idiomorphs
Reduction
Mean length of utterances Reduplicated babbling
Metalinguistic awareness
Reduplication
Motherese
Referential strategy
Mutual exclusivity bias
Semantic bootstrapping
Negative evidence
Sequential bilingualism
Ostensive definitions
Simultaneous bilingualism
Overextensions
Taxonomic constraint
Overregularization
Underextensions
Parameter setting
Variegated babbling
Phonological awareness
Whole object bias
Prelinguistic communication
Prosodic factors
Language development: Issues
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Imitation vs. innateness
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Universal (typical) pattern of development
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e.g., 6 months, 12 months, …
Cooing -> babbling -> words -> sentences
Emergence of syntax and morphology
What do we learn about language before we’re born?
Categorical perception in infants
Extensions of meaning
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Arguments for and against (e.g., critical periods)
One-word per referent heuristic
Fast mapping
Whole object constraint, Taxonomic constraint, Mutual exclusivity
Memory (words) and rules approach to morphological development
Feedback: negative and positive
Second language learning
Brain and language: Some terms &
issues
Broca’s Aphasia
Conduction aphasia
Direct electrical stimulation
ERP technique
Geschwind Model
fMRI
Lateralization of language functions
Phrenology
Split brain patients
Wada technique
Wernicke’s aphasia
Language and thought: Some terms
Basic (focal) color terms
Categorical perception
Color hierarchy
Counting systems (cross-linguistic)
Codability of color names
Color discrimination tasks
Language transfer
Linguistic determinism
Linguistic relativity
Inner speech
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Questions?
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Exam format the same as the past two
exams
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Multiple choice
Vocabulary matching
Short answer
Slightly longer answers
Future classes
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Thoughts about future classes
New textbook, different organization (better I think),
paperback (less expensive), website, etc.
More reading of articles, perhaps with ‘thought
papers’ and discussion
Less broad coverage of everything in
psycholinguistics, more focus on specific
topics/issues
nd day disucussions
 Perhaps a 1 day lecture, 2
More active exercises (these are hard to come up
with, suggestions welcome)