PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Spring 2009 Wednesday
9:10-12:00 文學院413
Chinese
psycholinguistics papers used in previous semesters
* * * SLIGHTLY REVISED 6/2 * * *
Me:
James Myers (麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers at
ccu edu 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 4/22)
30% Term
paper (due 6/17)
This
class is organized around lectures and readings. (Old, out of date versions of
the lecture notes are linked from the class Web site.) 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? (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 4/22 (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 (6/10), you will give a short, informal, ungraded presentation of your paper to get feedback from
everybody. The term paper is due by
Schedule [some
details may change]
[* marks when something related to your paper is due]
|
Week |
Topic/activity |
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2/18 |
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2/25 |
Carroll (chs.
1-3) |
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3/4 |
Carroll (ch.
7) |
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3/11 |
Carroll (ch.
6) |
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3/18 |
Carroll (ch.
5) |
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3/25 |
Carroll (ch.
4) |
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4/1 |
NO CLASS
[spring break] |
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4/8 |
Carroll (ch.
8) |
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4/15 |
Carroll (ch.
9) |
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*4/22 |
MIDTERM EXAM
DUE,
discuss paper topics |
Old exams: Spring
1997 |
|
4/29 |
Carroll (ch.
10) |
|
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5/6 |
Carroll (ch.
11, pp. 283-310) |
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5/12 |
Carroll (ch.
12) |
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5/20 |
Carroll (ch. 11,
pp. 310-322) |
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5/27 |
Carroll (ch.
13) |
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6/5 [Fri 9:10-12:00] |
Carroll (ch.
14) |
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*6/10 |
Presentations [last class] |
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*6/17 |
TERM PAPER DUE
IN MY MAILBOX BY |
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Ahrens, K., Liu, H.-L., Lee, C.-Y., Gong,
S.-P., Fang, S.-Y., & Hsu, Y.-Y. (2007). Functional MRI
of conventional and anomalous metaphors in Mandarin Chinese. Brain and Language, 100 (2), 163-171.
Gong, X., Jia,
M., Ruan, Y., Shuang, M.,
Liu, J., Wu, S., Guo, Y., Yang, J., Ling, Y., Yang,
X., & Zhang, D. (2004). Association between the FOXP2
gene and autistic disorder in Chinese population. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric
Genetics, 127B (1), 113-116.
Janssen, N., Bi, Y.,
& Caramazza, A. (2008). A
tale of two frequencies: Determining the speed of lexical access for Mandarin
Chinese and English compounds. Language
and Cognitive Processes, 23 (7-8), 1191-1223.
Ji, L.-J., Zhang,
Z., & Nisbett, R. E. (2004). Is it culture or is it language? Examination of language
effects in cross-cultural research on categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87 (1), 57-65.
Lee, C-Y. (2007). Does horse activate
mother? Processing lexical tone in form priming. Language and Speech, 50, 101-123.
Lee, J. N., & Naigles,
L. R. (2008). Mandarin learners use syntactic bootstrapping in verb
acquisition. Cognition, 106 (2),
1028-1037.
Lee, K.-O., &
Lee, S.-Y. (2004). Korean-Chinese
bilingual children's comprehension of Korean relative clauses: Rethinking of
the structural distance hypothesis. Language
Research, 40 (4), 1059-1080.
Li, X., Hagoort,
P., & Yang, Y. (2008). Event-related potential evidence on the influence of
accentuation in spoken discourse comprehension in Chinese. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 (5), 906-915.
Liu, Y. (in press). Determinants of
stall-holders' address forms to customers in Beijing's low-status clothing
markets. Journal of Pragmatics. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.07.002
Myers, J., Huang,
Y., & Wang, W. (2009). Compounding
vs. affixation in Chinese word recognition. National Chung Cheng University ms.
Tsay, J. (2009). The productivity
of tone sandhi in Taiwanese acquiring children.
National Chung Cheng University ms.
Ye, Z., Luo,
Y.-J., Friederici, A. D., & Zhou, X. (2006). Semantic and syntactic processing in
Chinese sentence comprehension: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain Research, 1071 (1), 186-196.
OTHER INTERESTING
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS BOOKS
Aitchison, J. (1998). The articulate mammal: An introduction to
psycholinguistics.
Altmann, G. T. M. (1997). The ascent of
Bloom, P. (Ed.) (1993). Language acquisition: Core readings.
Caplan, D. (1993). Language: Structure, processing and
disorders.
Field, J. (2003). Psycholinguistics: A resource book for students.
Field, J. (2004). Psycholinguistics: The key concepts.
Garman, M. (1990). Psycholinguistics.
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.
Harley, T. (2001). The psychology of language: From data to theory. (2nd edition).
Pinker, S. (1994). The language instinct. William Morrow. 洪蘭譯（1998）語言本能。商周出版。[entertaining but thesis-driven]
Steinberg, D. D., & Sciarini, N. V. (2006). An introduction to
psycholinguistics (2nd ed.).
Traxler, M., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (2006). Handbook of
psycholinguistics (2nd ed.)