Psycholinguistics (PSY 369)
Readings for Graduate Students

In most cases I will try to have the readings put on electronic course reserve at Milner's website. To access these, go to the Reserves readings, then click on Enter course reserve readings, then search by the course number and name (Psy369: Psycholinguistics).

If I can't get the readings here, I'll make a copy available in the Psychology Resrouce Center (rm 17 in the Basement of DeGarmo)

After reading the papers, I'd like you to think about them and write a brief (1 to 2 typed pages) paper about your thoughts and reactions to the papers and the issues about which they discuss. For some of the readings I'll provide a "thought paper question" for you to address in your reaction to the readings. For those without thought paper questions, just give me your unguided thoughts about the readings.

Week Topics Readings
Thought paper question.
WK1 Introduction and syllabus review.
What is language?
Psycholinguistics: A brief history
No readings this week.  
WK2 Some basic linguistics Hockett, C. F. (1960). The origin of speech. Scientific American. 203, 89-96.
T1.S5
Altmann, Gerry TM. The language machine: Psycholinguistics in review. British Journal of Psychology. Vol 92(1) Feb 2001, 129-170.
BF1 .B7
Sept 6: LABOR DAY
WK3 Some basic (cognitive) psychology Daneman, M., & Carpenter, P. A. (1980). Individual differences in working memory and reading. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 450-466.
BF455.A1 J6
Ransdell, Sarah; Arecco, MRosario; Levy, CMichael. Bilingual long-term working memory: The effects of working memory loads on writing quality and fluency. Applied Psycholinguistics. Vol 22(1) Mar 2001, 113-128.
BF455.A1 A64
 
WK4 Representations of Language Johnson-Laird, P. N., Herrmann, D. J., & Chaffin, R. (1984). Only connections: A critique of semantic networks. Psychological Bulletin, 96, 292-315.
BF1 .P753
Libben, Gary; Jarema, Gonia. Mental lexicon research in the new millennium. Brain & Language. Vol 81(1-3) Apr-Jun 2002, 2-11.
 
WK5 Review and catch-up

No readings, prepare for exam  
WK6 Language Comprehension Rayner, K. (1998). Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 372-422.
Diehl, Randy L; Lotto, Andrew J; Holt, Lori L. Speech perception. Annual Review of Psychology. Vol 55 Feb 2004, 149-179
WK7

Language Comprehension

**This one wasn't available on the reserve cite last time I assigned it (It is now). It is relevant again here, so try it in stead of the Fraizer article (unless you've already read that one).

**Daneman, M., & Carpenter, P. A. (1980). Individual differences in working memory and reading. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 450-466.
BF455.A1 J6
Kennison, S. M. (2001). Limitations on the use of verb information during sentence comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Vol 8(1), 132-138.
 
WK8 Language Comprehension Foltx, P. W. Kintsch, W., & Landauer, T. K. (1998). The measurement of textual coherence with Latent Semantic Analysis. Discourse Processess, 25, 285-307.

Gennari, Silvia P. Temporal References and Temporal Relations in Sentence Comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Vol 30(4) Jul 2004, 877-890.

 
WK9 Language Production Bock, Kathryn. Sentence production: From mind to mouth. [Chapter] Miller, Joanne L (Ed); Eimas, Peter D (Ed). (1995). Speech, language, and communication. Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed.), Vol. 11. (pp. 181-216). San Diego, CA, US: Academic Press, Inc.
BF455 .S581995

Berg, T. (2002). Slips of the typewriter key. Applied Psycholinguistics, 23, 185-207.

 
WK10 Language Production Bock, Kathryn. Language production: Methods and methodologies. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Vol 3(4) Dec 1996, 395-421.
BF1 .P865
A SECOND ARTICLE WILL BE ADDED
 
WK11 Catch-up and review No readings, prepare for exam  
WK12 Acquistion of Language Sachs, J. (1997). Communication development in infancy. In J. B. Gleason (Ed.), The development of language (4th ed. Pp. 40-68). Boston: Allyn and Bacon
A SECOND ARTICLE WILL BE ADDED
 
WK13 Acquistion of Language Bates, E., Devescovi, A., & Wulfeck, B. (2000). Psycholinguistics: A cross-language perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 369-396.
BF30.A56
A SECOND ARTICLE WILL BE ADDED
 

Thanksgiving

WK14 Acquistion of Language cont. &
Language and the Brain
Blank, SCatrin; Scott, Sophie K; Murphy, Kevin; Warburton, Elizabeth; Wise, Richard JS. Speech production: Wernicke, Broca and beyond. Brain. Vol 125(8) Aug 2002, 1829-38
A SECOND ARTICLE WILL BE ADDED
 
WK15 Language and culture
ARTICLES WILL BE ADDED
 

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