Introduction to Cognitive Science - Fall 2006
[Linguistics]

Lecturer: 麥 傑 (James Myers): x31506, 文學院347, lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw
課輔時間: Mon/3pm-5pm

Powerpoint files for class lectures

1. Language and cognitive science
2. Words and rules
3. What does "meaning" mean?
4. Sounds in the mind and hands
5. Language processing in the mind
6. Modeling language (and the mind)
7. Language in the brain
8. Language and kids
9. Language and space
10. Language genes and evolution

Presentation materials

The two papers for the presentation are responses to the following paper, which is available online in case you want to read it:

If you are curious, Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky (2005) has an appendix defending Chomsky's current syntactic theory, available only online:

Other interesting websites about language and cognition

(If any of these links are broken, or if you have new links to suggest, let me know!

GENERAL LINGUISTICS

• The homepage of the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at Chung Cheng
• My old Introduction to Linguistics class
• An index of other linguistics class WWW pages across the world.
• LINGUIST: Where linguists go to learn about linguistics.
• The languages of Taiwan
• Yahoo's linguistic links
• Chinese Yahoo's linguistic links
• Links to many, many pages about Chinese
• Some sign language links (some are broken...)
• Homepage of Noam Chomsky

GENERAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

• My old Biological and Psychological Foundations of Human Language class
• My most recent graduate psycholinguistics class
• The Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• The Cognitive Daily blog list of language science news reports
• The WWW homepage of Steven Pinker

GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX

• My notes about phrase structure from my old undergrad linguistics class
• A program that draws phrase structure trees!
• My notes about transformations from my old undergrad linguistics class

PHONOLOGY

• My introduction to phonological theory (in Chinese!)
• My current graduate phonology class
• My undergrad notes (in English) about phonemes, rules, and features ; and about syllables, feet, and how phonology interacts with morphology and syntax
• My undergrad class notes on the physics of speech
• Our own laboratory for studying speech
• A bunch of links to speech WWW pages and programs

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

• My notes on language acquisition from my old undergrad class.
• My notes on phonological development from my graduate psycholinguistics class
• My notes on syntactic and morphological development from my graduate psycholinguistics class
• My graduate psycholinguistics notes on the debates over innateness in language acquisition

EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

• Our own Language Processing Lab
• My notes on language processing in my old undergraduate linguistics class
• My notes on Whorf's hypothesis from my graduate psycholinguistics class
• My notes on speech perception from my graduate psycholinguistics class
• A movie demonstrating the "McGurk Effect" : how hearing speech is affected by seeing speech
• My notes on word processing from my graduate psycholinguistics class
• My notes on sentence processing in my graduate psycholinguistics class
• An experiment on phonological processing in English
• A psycholinguistics experiment at CalTech

LANGUAGE MODELING

• My old graduate class about mathematical linguistics
• ROCLING: the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
• A philosophical overview of connectionism
• A technical overview of connectionism