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SYLLABUS & READINGS
9/1
Lecture: PRODUCING AND PERCEIVING SPEECH
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 2, pp. 27-34, Chapter 9, pp. 257-283.
Samuel, A. G. (2011, in press) Speech perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 62.
Instructor Demo Presentation:
Kuhl, P.K., Williams, K.A., Lacerda, F., Stevens, K.N., & Lindblom, B. (1992). Linguistic experience
alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age. Science, 255, 606-608.
9/8
Student Presentation(s) on speech perception
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Kraljic, T., Samuel, A. G., & Brennan, S. E. (2008). First impressions and last resorts: How listeners
adjust to speaker variability. Psychological Science, 19, 333-338.
Kuhl, P.K., (2006). Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6
and 12 months. Developmental Science, 9, F13-F21.
Maye, J., Werker, J.F., & Gerken, L. (2002). Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect
phonetic discrimination. Cognition, 82, B101-B111.
McClelland, J. L., Fiez, J.A., & McCandliss, B.D. (2002). Teaching the /r/-/l/ discrimination to adults:
Behavioral and neural aspects. Physiology & Behavior, 77, 657-662.
Möttönen, R., Calvert, G.A., Jääskeläinen, I.P., Matthews, P.M., Thesen, T., Tuomainen, J., Sams, M.
(2006). Perceiving identical sounds as speech or non-speech modulates activity in the left
posterior superior temporal sulcus. NeuroImage, 30, 563-569.
Sebastian-Galles, N. & Bosch, L. (2009). Developmental shift in the discrimination of vowel contrasts in
bilingual infants: Is the distributional account all there is to it? Developmental Science, 12,
874-887.
Lecture: UNDERSTANDING AUDITORY WORDS
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 9, pp. 266-283.
Dahan, D. & Magnuson, J.S. (2006). Spoken word recognition. In M.J Traxler & M. Gernsbacher (Eds.),
Handbook of psycholinguistics, 2nd Ed. (pp. 249-283), Amsterdam: Academic Press.
9/15
Student Presentation(s) on auditory word recognition
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Cutler, A., Demuth, K., & McQueen, J.M. (2002). Universality versus language-specificity in listening to
running speech. Psychological Science, 13, 258-262.
Dahan, D., & Gaskell, M.G., (2007). The temporal dynamics of ambiguity resolution: Evidence from
spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory & Language, 57, 483-501.
Dumay, N., & Gaskell, M.G., (2007). Sleep-associated changes in the mental representation of spoken
words. Psychological Science, 18, 35-39.
Magnuson, J.S., McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N. (2003). Lexical effects on compensation
for coarticulation: The ghost of Christmash past. Cognitive Science, 27, 285-298.
Magnuson, J.S., Dixon, J.A., Tanenhaus, M.K., & Aslin, R. N. (2007). The dynamics of lexical
competition during spoken word recognition. Cognitive Science, 31, 133-156.
Samuel, A. G. (2001). Knowing a word affects the fundamental perception of the sounds within it.
Psychological Science, 12, 348-351.
Lecture: UNDERSTANDING VISUAL WORDS
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapters 6 & 7, pp. 167-240.
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Rastle, K. (2007). Visual word recognition. In M.G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of
psycholinguistics (pp. 71-87), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9/22
Student Presentation(s) on visual word recognition
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Liu, Y., Perfetti, C. A., & Wang, M. (2006). Visual analysis and lexical analysis of Chinese characters
by Chinese as second language readers. Language and Linguistics, 7, 637-657.
Rastle, K., Davis, M.H., New, B. (2004). The broth in my brother's brothel: Morpho-orthographic
segmentation in visual word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 1090-1098.
Rayner, K., Juhasz, B.J., Brown, S. J. (2007). Do readers obtain preview benefit from word n+2? A test
of serial attention shift versus distributed lexical processing models of eye movement control in
reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 33, 230-245.
Rodd, J.M. (2004). When do leotards get their spots? Semantic activation of lexical neighbors in visual
word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 434-439.
Tong, X. & McBride-Chang, C. (2010). Chinese-English biscriptal reading: Cognitive component skills
across orthographies. Reading and Writing, 23, 293-310.
Wicha, N.Y.Y., Moreno, E.M., Kutas, M. (2004). Anticipating words and their gender: An event-related
brain potential study of semantic integration, gender expectancy, and gender agreement in
Spanish sentence reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1272-1288.
Lecture: LEXICAL AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 6, pp. 199-207, Chapter 11, 321-360.
9/29
Student Presentation(s) on lexical ambiguity resolution
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Black, S. R. (2001). Semantic satiation and lexical ambiguity resolution. American Journal of
Psychology, 114, 493-510.
Kambe, G., Rayner, K., Duffy, S.A. (2001). Global context effects on processing lexically ambiguous
words: Evidence from eye fixations. Memory & Cognition, 29, 363-372.
Mason, R.A., & Just, M.A. (2007). Lexical ambiguity in sentence comprehension. Brain Research,
1146, 115-127.
Meyer, A.M. & Federmeier, K.D., (2007). The effects of context, meaning frequency, and associative
strength in semantic selection: Distinct contributions from each cerebral hemisphere. Brain
Research, 1183, 91-108.
Rodd, J., Gaskell, G., Marslen-Wilson, W. (2002). Making sense of semantic ambiguity: Semantic
competition in lexical access. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 245-266.
Sereno, S.C., Brewer, C.C., & O'Donnell, P. J. (2003). Context effects in word recognition: Evidence for
early interactive processing. Psychological Science, 14, 328-333.
Sereno, S.C., O'Donnell, P.J., & Rayner, K. (2006). Eye movements and lexical ambiguity resolution:
Investigating the subordinate-bias effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception & Performance, 32, 335-350.
Lecture: SENTENCE COMPREHENSION
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 10, pp. 287-320.
10/6
Student Presentation(s) on sentence comprehension
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Lau, E., Stroud, C., Plesch, S., Phillips, C. (2006). The role of structural prediction in rapid syntactic
analysis. Brain & Language, 98, 74-88.
McKoon, G. & Ratcliff, R. (2007). Interactions of meaning and syntax: Implications for models of
sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory & Language, 56, 270-290.
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Nicol, J., Swinney, D., Love, T., & Hald, L. (2006). The on-line study of sentence comprehension: An
examination of dual task paradigms. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 35, 215-231.
Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of
occurrence. Journal of Memory & Language, 57, 1-23.
van den Brink, D., Brown, C.M., & Hagoort, P. (2006). The cascaded nature of lexical selection and
integration in auditory sentence processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, & Cognition, 32, 364-372.
Lecture: SENTENCE COMPREHENSION, cont’d
Pickering, M.J. & van Gompel, R.P.G. (2006). Syntactic parsing. In M.J Traxler & M. Gernsbacher
(Eds.), Handbook of psycholinguistics, 2nd Ed. (pp. 455-503), Amsterdam: Academic Press.
Frazier, L., Carlson, K., & Clifton, C. (2006). Prosodic phrasing is central to language comprehension.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 244-249.
10/13 Student Presentation(s) on sentence comprehension
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Farmer, T.A., Cargill, S.A., Hindy, N.C., Dale, R., & Spivey, M.J. (2007). Tracking the continuity of
language comprehension: Computer mouse trajectories suggest parallel syntactic processing.
Cognitive Science, 31, 889-909.
Ferreira, F., Christianson, K., & Hollingworth, A. (2001). Misinterpretations of garden-path sentences:
Implications for models of sentence processing and reanalysis. Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research, 30, 3-20.
Spivey, M.J., Tanenhaus, M.K., Eberhard, K.M., & Sedivy, J.C. (2002). Eye movements and spoken
language comprehension: Effects of visual context on syntactic ambiguity resolution. Cognitive
Psychology, 45, 447-481.
Traxler, M.J., & Tooley, K. M. (2007). Lexical mediation and context effects in sentence processing.
Brain Research, 1146, 59-74.
Weber, A., Grice, M., & Crocker, M. W. (2006). The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural
ambiguities: A study of anticipatory eye movements. Cognition, 99, B63-B72.
Lecture: BILINGUAL & CROSS-LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 5, pp. 153-163.
Bates, E., Devescovi, A., & Wulfeck, B. (2001). Psycholinguistics: A cross-language perspective.
Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 369-396.
Hernandez, A.E., Fernandez, E.M., Aznar-Bese, N.A. (2007). Bilingual sentence processing. In M.G.
Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 372-384), Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
10/20 Student Presentation(s) on bilingual & cross-linguistic comparison of comprehension
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Chee, M.W.L., Soon, C.S., Lee, H.L., & Pallier, C. (2004). Left insula activation: A marker for language
attainment in bilinguals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 15265-15270.
Dussias, P.E. & Sagarra, N. (2007). The effect of exposure on syntactic parsing in Spanish-English
bilinguals. Bilingualism, 10, 101-116.
Hartsuiker, R.J., Pickering, M.J., & Veltkamp, E. (2004). Is syntax separate or shared between
languages? Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Spanish-English bilinguals. Psychological
Science, 15, 409-414.
McLaughlin, J., Osterhout, L., & Kim, A. (2004). Neural correlates of second-language word learning:
minimal instruction produces rapid change. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 703-704.
Schwartz, A.I. & Kroll, J.F. (2006). Bilingual lexical activation in sentence context. Journal of Memory &
Language, 55, 197-212.
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Lecture: DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 12, pp. 361-393.
Garrod, S., & Pickering, M.J. (2004). Why is conversation so easy? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8,
8-11.
10/27 Student Presentation(s) on discourse comprehension
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Arnold, J.E., Tanenhaus, M.K., Altmass, R.J., & Fagnano, M. (2004). The old and thee, uh, new:
Disfluency and reference resolution. Psychological Science, 15, 578-582.
Brown-Schmidt, S., Byron, D.K., &Tanenhaus, M.K. (2005). Beyond salience: Interpretation of personal
and demonstrative pronouns. Journal of Memory & Language, 53, 292-213.
Campion, N. (2004). Predictive inferences are represented as hypothetical facts. Journal of Memory
& Language, 50, 149-164.
Swaab, T.Y., Camblin, C.C., & Gordon, P.C. (2004). Electrophysiological evidence for reversed lexical
repetition effects in language processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 715-726.
Wassenburg, S. I. & Zwaan, R. A. (2010, in press). Readers routinely represent implied object rotation:
The role of visual experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Lecture: WORKING MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 12, pp. 361-373.
Engle, R. W. (2010). Role of working-memory capacity in cognitive control. Current Anthropology, 51,
Supplement 1, S17-S26.
Lewis, R.L., Vasishth, S., Van Dyke, J.A. (2006). Computational principles of working memory in
sentence comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 447-454.
11/3
Student Presentation(s) on memory in & for language
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Fedorenko, E., Gibson, E., & Rohde, D. (2006). The nature of working memory capacity in sentence
comprehension: Evidence against domain-specific working memory resources. Journal of
Memory & Language, 54, 541-553.
Gordon, P.C., Hendrick, R., Johnson, M., & Lee, Y. (2006). Similarity-based interference during
language comprehension: Evidence from eye tracking during reading. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 32, 1304-1321.
Leff, A. P., Schofield, T. M., Crinion, J. T., Seghier, M. L., Grogan, A., Green, D. W., & Price, C. J.,
(2009). The left superior temporal gyrus is a shared substrate for auditory short-term
memory and speech comprehension: Evidence from 210 patients with stroke. Brain,
132, 3401-3410.
Novais-Santos, S., Gee, J., Shah, M., Troiani, V., Work, M., & Grossman, M. (2007). Resolving
sentence ambiguity with planning and working memory resources: Evidence from fMRI.
Neuroimage, 37, 361-378.
Prat, C.S., Keller, T.A., & Just, M.A. (2007). Individual differences in sentence comprehension: A
functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of syntactic and lexical processing
demands. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1950-1963.
Van Dyke, J.A. & McElree, B. (2006). Retrieval interference in sentence comprehension. Journal of
Memory & Language, 55, 157-166.
Lecture: SENTENCE PRODUCTION
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 13, pp. 397-412, pp. 432-435.
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Ferreira, V.S. & Slevc, L.R. (2007). Grammatical encoding. In M.G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford
handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 453-469), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11/10 NO CLASS (Neurobiology of Language Conference)
11/17 Student Presentation(s) on sentence production
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Arnold, J.E. & Griffin, Z.M. (2007). The effect of additional characters on choice of referring expression:
Everyone counts. Journal of Memory & Language, 4, 521-536.
Bock, K., Eberhard, K.M., & Cutting, J.C. (2004). Producing number agreement: How pronouns equal
verbs. Journal of Memory & Language, 51, 251-278.
Bock, J.K. & Griffin, Z.M. (2000). The persistence of structural priming: Transient activation or implicit
learning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 177-192.
Bock, K., Dell, G.S., Chang, F., & Onishi, K.H. (2007). Persistent structural priming from language
comprehension to language production. Cognition, 104, 437-458.
Brown-Schmidt, S. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2006). Watching the eyes when talking about size: An
investigation of message formulation and utterance planning. Journal of Memory & Language,
54, 592-609.
Chang, F., Bock, K., & Goldberg, A.E. (2003). Can thematic roles leave traces of their places?
Cognition, 90, 29-49.
Haywood, S.L., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2005). Do speakers avoid ambiguities during
dialogue? Psychological Science, 16, 362-366.
Humphreys, K.R. & Bock, K. (2005). Notional number agreement in English. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 12, 689-695.
Lecture: WORD & SPEECH PRODUCTION
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 13, pp. 412-432.
Griffin, Z.M. & Ferreira, V.S. (2006). Properties of spoken language production. In M.J Traxler & M.
Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of psycholinguistics, 2nd Ed. (pp. 21-59), Amsterdam:
Academic Press.
Fowler, C.A. (2007). Speech production. In M.G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of
psycholinguistics (pp. 489-501), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11/24 NO CLASS (Fall Break)
12/1
Student Presentation(s) on word & speech production
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Chen, J.Y., Chen, T.M., & Dell, G.S. (2002). Word-form encoding in Mandarin Chinese as assessed by
the implicit priming task. Journal of Memory & Language, 46, 751-781.
Ferreira, V.S. & Griffin, Z.M. (2003). Phonological influences on lexical (mis)selection. Psychological
Science, 14, 86-90.
Griffin, Z.M. (2004). The eyes are right when the mouth is wrong. Psychological Science, 15, 814-821.
van Turennout, M., Hagoort, P. & Brown, C.M. (1998). Brain activity during speaking: From syntax to
phonology in 40 milliseconds. Science, 280, 572-574.
Warker, J.A. & Dell, G.S. (2006). Speech errors reflect newly learned phonotactic constraints. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 32, 387-398.
Zhang, Q., Damian, M.F., & Yanya, Y. (2007). Electrophysiological estimates of the time course of tonal
and orthographic encoding in Chinese speech production. Brain Research, 1184, 234-244.
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Lecture: NEUROIMAGING OF LANGUAGE
Harley, 3rd Ed., Chapter 3, pp. 67-79.
Kutas, M. & Federmeier, K.A. (2007). Event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of sentence
processing. In M.G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 385-406),
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bornkessel-Schlewesky, I.D. & Friederici, A.D. (2006). Neuroimaging studies of sentence and
discourse comprehension. In M.G. Gaskell (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics
(pp. 407-424), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12/8
Student Presentation(s) on neuroimaging of language
Candidate Presentation Articles:
Gennari, S.P., MacDonald, M.C., Postle, B.R., & Seidenberg, M.S. (2007). Context-dependent
interpretation of words: Evidence for interactive neural processes. Neuroimage, 35, 1278-1236.
Kim, A. & Osterhout, L. (2005). The independence of combinatory semantic processing: Evidence from
event-related potentials. Journal of Memory & Language, 52, 205-225.
Kovelman, I., Baker, S.A., & Petitto, L.A. (2008). Bilingual and monolingual brains compared: A
functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of syntactic processing and a possible
"neural signature" of bilinguals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 153-169.
Mason, R.A. & Just, M.A. (2007). Lexical ambiguity in sentence comprehension. Brain Research, 1146,
115-127.
Osaka, N., Otsuka, Y., Hirose, N., Ikeda, T., Mima, T., Fukuyama, H., & Osaka, M. (2007). Transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied to left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex disrupts verbal working
memory performance in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 418, 232-235.
Yokoyama, S., Watanabe, J., Iwata, K., Ikuta, N., Haji, T., Usui, N., Taira, M., Miyamoto, T., Nakamura,
W., Sato, S., Horie, K., & Kawashima, R. (2007). Is Broca's area involved in the processing of
passive sentences? An event-related fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 45, 989-996.
Lecture: CATCH-UP & WRAP-UP
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