Lab Assignments

The lab assignments are a major component of the course, and are designed to give you first-hand experience with experimental and computational techniques used in psycholinguistic research.

1. Speech Perception: Effects of Native Language and Processing Time (Psyscope)

2. Development of auxiliaries (Childes Database)

Maggie Browning's Language Acquisition course (Princeton U.):
Homepage
Symbols in CHILDES (PDF file - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in)

3. Language Acquisition Experiment using the Truth-value Judgment Task (pen and paper!)

4. Neural Networks and Morphology (Tlearn Simulator)

Part A: Introduction to Neural Networks
Part B: Modeling the English Past Tense (updated 11/4/99)
Additional files: Connectionism handout -- Answers to Questions -- Windows Notes

5. Lexical Decision and Morphology (Psyscope)

6. Sentence Processing: Ambiguity Resolution experiment (mw-run self-paced reading program)

Running the Lab #5 Experiment

Homepages of software tools used in the lab assignments (clicking on the icons below will open the link in a new browser window).

CHILDES is the result of an international effort, based at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Tlearn was developed at the University of California, San Diego

Psyscope was developed at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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Last updated 10/12/99 by Colin Phillips