Readings

Readings for the course will mostly be articles taken from recent journals or handbooks. There will usually be one article assigned for each class. Usually when there are multiple readings, one or more of them will be short articles from Nature or Science.

Photocopies will be made for you, and will be available in the "Psycholinguistics" mailbox in the Linguistics Department (46 E. Delaware Ave.). You will need to pay in advance for the readings: please go to the Linguistics Department office and pay Jane Creswell $27.50 by the end of the second week of classes (Sept. 12th).

Some articles which contain critical color illustrations will be made available electronically, since we can't afford to make copious numbers of color copies! These will be available via the library's Electronic Reserves pages.

  1. Blumstein, S. 1995. Language and the brain. In: P. Eimas & J. Miller (eds.), Speech, Language and Communication. Orlando: Academic Press, 339­370.
  2. Corina, D., Bavelier, D., Jezzard, P., Clark, V. P., Padmanabhan, S., Rauschecker, J., Braun, A., Turner, R., & Neville, H. 1997 (in press). Processing of American Sign Language and English in native deaf signers: An fMRI study at 4T. Brain and Cognition.
  3. Crain, S. 1992. Language acquisition in the absence of experience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14, 597­650.
  4. Dell, G. Speaking and misspeaking. In L. Gleitman & M. Liberman (eds) Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 1 (2nd edn.), 183-208.
  5. Ferreira, V. 1997. Is it better to give than to donate? Syntactic flexibility in language production. Journal of Memory and Language 35, 724-755.
  6. Forster, K. 1990. Lexical processing. In D. Osherson & H. Lasnik (eds.), Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1 (1st edn.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 95-131.
  7. Friederici, A. 1995. The time course of syntactic activation during language processing: a model based on neuropsychological and neurophysiological data. Brain and Language 50, 259-281.
  8. Garrett, M. 1990. Sentence processing. In D. Osherson & H. Lasnik (eds.), Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1 (1st edn.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 133-175.
  9. Garrett, M. 1995. The structure of language processing: neuropsychological evidence. In M. Gazzaniga (ed) The Cognitive Neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 881-899.
  10. Gleitman 1990. The structural sources of verb meanings. Language Acquisition 1, 1­55.
  11. Gleitman, L. & E. Newport. 1995. The invention of language by children: environmental and biological influences on the acquisition of language. In L. Gleitman & M. Liberman (eds) Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 1 (2nd edn.), 1­24.
  12. Hickok, G., Bellugi, U. & Klima, E.S. 1996. The neurobiology of signed language and its implications for the neural basis of language. Nature 381, 699-702.
  13. Jaeger, J., A. Lockwood, D. Kemmerer, R. van Valin, B. Murphy & H. Khalak. 1996. A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Regular and Irregular verb Morphology in English. Language 72, 451­497.
  14. Jusczyk, P. 1997. The Discovery of Spoken Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (chapters 3­4)
  15. MacDonald, M., M. Just & P. Carpenter. 1992. Working memory constraints on the processing of syntactic ambiguity. Cognitive Psychology 24, 56-98.
  16. MacDonald, M., N. Pearlmutter & M. Seidenberg. 1994. The lexical basis of syntactic ambiguity resolution. Psychological Review 99, 676­703.
  17. Marslen-Wilson, W. & L.K. Tyler. (1997). Dissociating types of mental computation. Nature 387, 592­594.
  18. Naigles, L. 1996. The use of multiple frames in verb learning via syntactic bootstrapping. Cognition 58, 221­251.
  19. Penke, M., H. Weyerts, M. Gross, E. Zander, T. Munte & H. Clahsen. 1997. How the brain processes complex words: an ERP-study of German verb inflections. Essex research reports in linguistics 14, 1-41.
  20. Petersen, S., P. Fox, M. Posner, M. Mintun & M. Raichle. 1988. Positron emission tomographic studies of the cortical anatomy of single-word processing. Nature 331, 585-589.
  21. Phillips, C. 1995. Syntax at age two: Crosslinguistic differences. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #26, 225­282.
  22. Phillips et al. 1995. Brain mechanisms of speech perception: a preliminary report. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #26, 125­163.
  23. Phillips, C. 1996. Order and Structure. PhD thesis, MIT (chapters 1-3).
  24. Phillips et al. 1997ab (manuscripts in preparation; we'll use poster presentations of these studies in the event that the manuscripts are not ready in time)
  25. Pinker, S. 1994. How could a child learn verb syntax to learn verb semantics? In: L. Gleitman & B. Landau (eds.), The Acquisition of the Lexicon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 377­410.
  26. Pinker, S. 1995a. Why the child holded the baby rabbits: a case study in language acquisition. In L. Gleitman & M. Liberman (eds) Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 1 (2nd edn.), 107-133.
  27. Pinker, S. 1995b. Language Acquisition. In L. Gleitman & M. Liberman (eds) Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 1 (2nd edn.), 135­182.
  28. Plunkett, K. 1995. Connectionist approaches to language acquisition. In P. Fletcher & B. MacWhinney (eds) The Handbook of Child Language. Oxford: Blackwell, 36-72.
  29. Saffran, J., R. Aslin & E. Newport. 1996. Statistical learning by 8-month old infants. Science 274, 1926.
  30. Werker, J. 1995. Exploring developmental changes in cross-language speech perception. In L. Gleitman & M. Liberman (eds) Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 1 (2nd edn.), 87-106.
  31. Zurif, E. 1990. Language and the brain. In D. Osherson & H. Lasnik (eds.), Language: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1 (1st edn.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 177-198.