Language
& Mind
FALL 2007
050.102
MTW 10:00-10:50 am, Room: Maryland 110
/courses/LangAndMind/
William Badecker
Kreiger 149
x 6-5330
Office hours: Mondays, 2:00-4:00pm
& by appointment
Course Details
Teaching Assistants
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Emma
Gregory Dave
Taylor |
Lilia
Rissman Fe
Vivas |
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Lecture/Assignment Schedule
Texts- Readings should be completed prior to the class they are listed next to.
- W. O’Grady, J. Archibald, M. Aronoff, & J. Rees-Miller. 2005. Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (5th Ed.). New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. [OAAR]
- S. Pinker. 1994. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York, NY: Harper.[PNKR]
- Primary articles
are available for download from the course site.
| Week 1 | Lecture Topic | Reading/Assignment | Just for fun... |
| Sept 10 | |||
| Sept 11 | knowledge of grammar and the status of rules |
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| Sept
12 |
knowledge
of grammar (cont.): the innateness issue >> speech error assignment |
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| Week 2 | |||
| Sept 17 |
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Example Speech Error Corpus | |
| Sept 18 | language & the brain |
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| Sept
19 |
syntax—phrase
structure (structure & recursion) |
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The Onion: Rules grammar change |
| Week 3 | |||
| Sept 24 | syntax—phrase structure, X-bar parameters | 
in
my pyjamas |
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| Sept 25 | syntax—phrase structure & the lexicon | ||
| Sept
26 |
syntax—transformations
Outline | Slides |
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| Week 4 | |||
| Oct 1 | syntax—unbounded movement | David Sedaris on French Gender Agreement
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| 0ct 2 | syntax—anaphoric relations | ||
| Oct
3 |
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Steve Pinker video | |
| Week 5 | |||
| Oct 8 | semantics
& pragmatics |
There
is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it. -anonymous |
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| Oct 9* | performance Outline | Slides |
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| Oct
10* |
sentence processing (comprehension) |
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| Week 6 | |||
| Oct 15 | fall break day (no class) | ||
| Oct 16 | sentence processing (comprehension) | ||
| Oct
17 |
review |
Optional,
after class Review Session: Thursday, 6:00pm, Krieger 134 |
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| Week 7 | |||
| Oct 22 | MIDTERM EXAM | ||
| Oct 23 | articulatory
phonetics Outline | Slides |
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| Oct
24 |
articulatory phonetics |
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Audio/Video IPA Chart |
| Week 8 | |||
| Oct 29 | speech
perception Outline | Slides |
McGurk Effect Demonstration - Watch the MOVs and write down what you hear. Then watch it again, covering the face. What did you hear that time? Experiment with covering all or some of different parts of the face. Does that alter what you hear? |
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| Oct 30 | speech perception | ||
| Oct
31 |
phonology—distinctive
features and word forms Outline | Slides | Handout |
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| Week 9 | |||
| Nov 5 | phonology—phonological rules |
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| Nov 6 | phonology—phonological rules | ||
| Nov
7 |
morphology Outline | Slides |
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| Week 10 | |||
| Nov 12 | morphology | ||
| Nov 13 | lexical processing | ||
| Nov
14 |
speech
errors & language production Outline | Slides |
Susan Goldin-Meadow Lecture: How our hands help us think; Friday, November 16th, 3:30pm, Hodson Hall 210. | |
| Week 11 | |||
| Nov 19 | speech errors & language production | ||
| Nov 20 | language
acquisition Outline | Slides |
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| Nov
21 |
language acquisition |
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| Week 12 | |||
| Nov 26 | language acquisition | ||
| Nov 27 | language & innateness |
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| Nov
28 |
language
in other modalities: ASL Outline | Slides |
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| Week 13 | |||
| Dec 2* | language in other modalities: writing systems |
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Savage-Rumbaugh video |
| Dec 3* | animal
communication Outline | Slides |
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| Dec
4* |
language & computation |
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| Week 14 | |||
| Dec 10 | overflow
& review Review Slides |
Optional, after class Review Sessions in Krieger 134: Tuesday [the 11th], 4:00pm; and Wednesday [the 12th], 3:00pm. |
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| Final Exam | |||
| Dec
14 Friday |
FINAL
EXAM: |
FINAL EXAM starts promptly at 9:00am (copies of the exam will not be distributed after 9:30am) | |
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Due dates will be announced in class when the assimgment is made, and will be posted along with the assignment. It is the student's responsibility to keep track of the assignment deadlines that are posted on this web site. Late homework assignments will be assessed a daily grading penalty. For questions concerning when homework assignments are due, whether a particular assignment has been graded, or questions about the grading of an assignment itself, please contact the TAs. |
On
Exams, Attendance and Grading
| Relative assignment weights |
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Lectures will occasionally include materials that are not included in the readings. Examinations will cover material from the assigned readings and lectures.
Class attendance will not be monitored by the instructor. However, students are reminded that they are responsible for material that is covered in class lectures, even if that material does not appear in course readings. In addition, students are responsible for assignments that are announced during class lectures. Absence on the day(s) that the assignments are announced will not serve as an excuse for turning in a late assignment.
Homework assigments must be turned in on or before the due date. Late assignments may incur a penalty of at least one grade deduction per day. Homework assignments must reflect the student's own effort alone.
There will be no alternate scheduling for exams except in the event of documented illness or family emergency. No exceptions will be made to accommodate holiday or vacation travel plans.
There is
an extra-credit option for participating in the Experimentrix
subject pool. You must complete five (5) experimetrix credits and
credit them to this class before the end of the semester to receive credit
for this class (no partial credit for less than five credits). Other
in-class extra credit options may be offered at the discretion of the
instructor.
Ethics
The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity.
In this course, you must be honest and truthful. Ethical violations include
cheating on exams, unauthorized use of tests from previous semesters,
plagiarism, reuse of assignments, improper use of the Internet and electronic
devices, unauthorized collaboration, alteration of graded
assignments, forgery and falsification, lying, facilitating academic dishonesty,
and unfair competition.
Participants in this course are expected to adhere to the undergraduate code of ethics. The university requests that you report any violations that you witness to the instructor. You may consult the associate dean of student affairs and/or the chairman of the Ethics Board beforehand. See the the Ethics Board web site for more information. Details concerning the ethics code are found in the on-line undergraduate academic manual.