PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Updated 11/28/2007 (see changes below)
Chinese psycholinguistics papers used in previous semesters
Teacher:
James Myers (麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw
WWW: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/
Office hours: Mon. 3-5, or by appointment.
Required readings:
* Carroll, D. W. (2008). Psychology of language (fifth edition). Thomson/Wadsworth.
* Weekly research articles (listed below)
Evaluation:
40% Questions about articles
30% Take-home midterm exam (due 11/15)
30% Term paper (due 1/10)
This class is organized around lectures and readings. (Old, out of date versions of the lecture notes are linked below.) The readings include textbook chapters and also real psycholinguistic articles, all of which relate to Chinese.
Before each class you should read the week's article and answer the following three questions (in English): (1) What is the main claim of the paper? [That is, what are the authors trying to make us believe?] (2) How well is this claim supported by the authors' evidence or arguments? [That is, what criticisms can be made against the paper?] (3) How is this article related to other things you've learned about in this class (i.e., in the notes, the textbook, or in previously discussed articles)? Make your answers complete but brief (about 1-2 pages in total). You should sketch out answers for the readings every week, but you only have to hand in five (or more) for me to grade for clarity and depth of understanding. The purpose of this is to help guide our in-class discussion of the article, which will take about the last hour of the class.
The midterm exam will only cover material from the first half of the course. It will be a take-home exam, so you'll have one week to finish it. Students must work independently, but everybody is free to ask me questions (I'll email my answers back to everybody).
The term paper (about 10 pages, in English) will describe your own empirical psycholinguistic research. The only constraints on your paper are that it must use a methodology described in any of the readings (including the textbook and notes) and that it must focus on some theoretical issue(s) discussed in class. Thus the paper can describe a new experiment on speech perception, speech production, lexical access, or sentence comprehension; or a new collection of natural speech errors; or an original description of the language of some child. You should choose a topic by 11/15 (as an ungraded part of the midterm); if you want to work on a topic discussed later in the semester, you'll have to read ahead. Psycholinguistics always takes longer than you expect! On the last class (1/3), you will give a short, informal, ungraded presentation of your paper to get feedback from everybody. The term paper is due by 5 pm in my mailbox on 1/10. When I grade, I will focus on organization/logic, methodology, and the connection to the theoretical issues we have discussed.
Schedule
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Week |
Topic/activity |
Readings |
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9/13 |
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9/20 |
Introduction to Chinese psycholinguistics |
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9/27 |
Carroll (chs. 1-3) |
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10/4 |
Carroll (ch. 7) |
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10/11 |
Carroll (ch. 6) |
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10/18 |
Carroll (ch. 5) |
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10/25 |
Carroll (ch. 4) |
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11/1 |
Carroll (ch. 8) |
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11/8 |
Carroll (ch. 9) |
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*11/15 |
MIDTERM EXAM DUE Discuss paper topics |
Old exams: |
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11/22 |
Carroll (ch. 10) |
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11/29 |
NO CLASS (James away at a conference) |
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12/6 |
Carroll (ch. 11, pp. 283-310) |
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12/13 |
Carroll (ch. 12) |
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12/14 |
Carroll (ch. 11, pp. 310-322) |
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12/20 |
Carroll (ch. 13) |
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12/27 |
Carroll (ch. 14) |
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*1/3 |
Presentations [last class] |
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*1/10 |
TERM PAPER DUE IN MY MAILBOX BY 5 PM |
READINGS
Chen, J.-Y. (2007). Do Chinese and English speakers think about time differently? Failure of replicating Boroditsky (2001). Cognition, 104 (2), 427-436.
Chen, T.-M., & Chen, J.-Y. (2006). Morphological encoding in the production of compound words in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 491-514.
Hallé, P. A., Chang, Y.-C., Best, C. T. (2004). Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 32 (3), 395-421.
Jia, G., & Aaronson, D. (2003). A longitudinal study of Chinese children and adolescents learning English in the United States. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 131-161.
Lee, J. N., & Naigles, L. R. (2005). The input to verb learning in Mandarin Chinese: A role for syntactic bootstrapping. Developmental Psychology, 41 (3), 529-540.
Liu, I., Sue, I., Chen, S., & Chou, T. (2007). Sentence-frame frequency effects. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22 (5), 1-28.
Myers, J. (2007). Generative morphology as psycholinguistics. In G. Jarema & G. Libben (Eds.), The mental lexicon: Core perspectives (pp. 105-128). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Myers, J., Libben, G., & Derwing, B. (2007 ms.). Form and meaning in the reading of Chinese compounds. National Chung Cheng University and University of Alberta ms.
Myers, J., & Tai, J. H.-Y. (2007). A critical review: The handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics, vol. 1: Chinese, by Ping Li, Li Hai Tan, Elizabeth Bates, & Ovid J. L. Tzeng (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2006. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 35 (1), 145-175.
Stokes, S. F., & Wong, I. M. (2002). Vowel and diphthong development in Cantonese-speaking children. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 16 (8), 597-617.
Tan, L. H., Spinks, J. A., Feng, C.-M., Siok, W. T., Perfetti, C. A., Xiong, J., Fox, P. T., & Gao, J.-H. (2003). Neural systems of second language reading are shaped by native language. Human Brain Mapping, 18, 158-166.
Tzeng, Y., & Chen, P. (2006). The effects of causal structure on levels of representation for Chinese children's narrative comprehension. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 48 (2), 115-138.
Valaki, C. E., Maestu, F., Simos, P. G., Zhang, W., Fernandez, A., Amo, C. M., Ortiz, T. M., & Papanicolaou, A. C. (2004). Cortical organization for receptive language functions in Chinese, English, and Spanish: A cross-linguistic MEG study. Neuropsychologia, 42, 967-979.
Yang, W. (2002). Communication slips and their sociocultural implications. Language & Communication, 22 (1), 69-82.
OTHER INTERESTING PSYCHOLINGUISTICS BOOKS
Aitchison, J. (1998). The articulate mammal: An introduction to psycholinguistics. London: Routledge. [a basic but quirky introduction]
Altmann, G. T. M. (1997). The ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [a general popularization by a famous researcher whose own interest is in sentence processing]
Bloom, P. (Ed.) (1993). Language acquisition: Core readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [contains papers that mostly support the nativist and modularist approaches]
Caplan, D. (1993). Language: Structure, processing and disorders. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [focuses on neurolinguistics, no language development]
Field, J. (2003). Psycholinguistics: A resource book for students. London: Routledge. [a very brief introduction, biased towards reading, with some extracts from psycholinguistics papers]
Field, J. (2004). Psycholinguistics: The key concepts. London: Routledge. [a small encyclopedia]
Garman, M. (1990). Psycholinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [good, but nothing on language development]
Gleason, J. B., & Ratner, N. B. (Eds.) (1993). Psycholinguistics. Harcourt Brace. [contains very basic chapters by some famous psycholinguists]
Gleitman, L. R., & M. Liberman (1995). An invitation to cognitive science, vol. 1: Language, second edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [introductory articles by famous researchers]
Harley, T. (2001). The psychology of language: From data to theory. (2nd edition). New York: Taylor & Francis. [a good introductory textbook, maybe slightly harder to read than Carroll]
Newmeyer, F. J. (1988). Linguistics: The Cambridge survey III: Language: Psychological and biological aspects. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [introductory articles by famous researchers]
Pinker, S. (1994). The language instinct. William Morrow. [entertaining but biased; 洪蘭譯（1998）語言本能。商周出版。]
Steinberg, D. D., & Sciarini, N. V. (2006). An introduction to psycholinguistics (2nd ed.). Harlow, England: Pearson Longman. [a textbook that argues for their own theoretical approach]
Traxler, M., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (2006). Handbook of psycholinguistics (2nd ed.) San Diego: Academic Press. [lots of technical papers by experts on different aspects of psycholinguistics]