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Psychology S3240d Seminar in Language & Communication
2002 Summer Session I May 28 - July 5, 2002 MW 1 - 4:10 PM in 405 Schermerhorn Hall COURSE DESCRIPTION (S3240D) A selective review of theory and research on the communicative use of language. Topics include speech production and comprehension, the construction of speakers' intentions, effects of perspective and audience design, and the vocal communication of affect. Ezequiel Morsella, Instructor Requirements: Half of the class grade is based on class participation,
and half is based on a brief research paper. Students lead class discussions
about the assigned readings and carry out a brief research paper on an
area of interest. The final chapter of the research paper is a proposed
scientific experiment. Week 1: Introduction to Language and Communication Pinker, S. (1994). "An Instinct to Acquire and Art" and "Chatterboxes." The Language Instinct. pp. 15-24. New York: HarperPerennial. Hockett, C. F. (1960) "The Origin of Speech." Scientific American. Krauss, R. M. & Chiu, C-Y. (1998). "Language and Social Behavior." In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindsey (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology. (4th Edition, Vol. 2. pp. 41-88), Boston: McGraw-Hill. Week 2: Language Production Levelt, W. J. M. "Models of Word Production." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 223-232 Pinker, S. "How Language Works." The Language Instinct. Jackendoff, R. (1994). "The Argument for Mental Grammar." Patterns in the Mind. Part 1.1, pp. 8-21. New York: Basic Books. Dell, G. S. (1986), "A Spreading Activation Theory of Lexical Retrieval in Sentence Production." Psychological Review, 93, 283-321. Week 3: Meaning and Semantics Miller, G. A. (1991). "Word Meanings." The Science of Words, pp. 145-169. Scientific American Library. McNamara, T. P. & Miller, D. L. (1989). "Attributes of Theories of Meaning." Psychological Bulletin, 106, 355-376. Martin, A., Haxby, J. V., Lalonde, F. M., Wiggs, C. L., & Ungerleider, L. G. (1995). "Discrete Cortical Regions Associated with Knowledge of Color and Knowledge of Action." Science, 270, 102-105. Lewis, M. B. & Ellis, H. D. (2000). "Satiation in Name and Face Recognition." Memory & Cognition, 28, 783-788. Week 4: Speech Perception Remez, R. E. (1994). "A Guide to Research on the Perception of Speech." In M. Gernsbacher (Ed.). Handbook of Psycholinguistics, PP 145-167. Ladefoged, P. & Broadbent, D. E. (1957). "Information Conveyed by Vowels." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 29, 98-104. Liberman, A. M. & Mattingly, I. G. (1985). "The Motor Theory of Speech Perception Revised." Cognition, 21, 1-36. McGurk, H. & McDonald, J. (1976). "Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices." Nature, 264, 746-748. Week 5: Discourse and Nonverbal Behavior Keysar, B., Barr, D. J., & Horton, W. S. (1998). "The Egocentric basis of Language Use: Insights from a Processing Approach." Currents Directions in Psychological Science, 7, 46-50. Krauss, R. M., Fussell, S. R., & Chen. Y. (1995). "Coordination of Perspective in Dialogue: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes." In I. Markova, C. Graumann, & K. Foppa’s (Eds.) Mutualities in Dialogue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Krauss, R. M. (1998). "Why Do We Gesture when We Speak?" Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7, pp. 54-60. Kappas, Arvid; Hess, Ursula; Scherer, Klaus R. (1991). "Voice and Emotion." In R. S. Feldman, R. Stephen, Rime, B. (Eds). Fundamentals of nonverbal behavior. Studies in Emotion & Social Interaction, pp. 200-238. New York, NY, US; New York: Cambridge University Press. Week 6: Language and Thought, Language Use, and Frontiers Chiu, C-Y., Krauss, R. M., & Lau, I. Y. M. "Some Cognitive Consequences of Communication." In, pp. 259-275. Pinker, S. (1994). "Mentalese." The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, 55-83. Chomsky, N. (1988). "The View Beyond: Prospects for the Study of Mind." Language and the Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 133-171.
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