PSY 369: Psycholinguistics

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PSY 369 Psycholinguistics

• Review for Exam 3

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Exam coverage

• Chapters
• 10 Language development early
• 11 language development later
• 12 Language development processes and debates
• 13 Brain and Language
• 14 Language and thought

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Language development Some terms

• Idiomorphs
• Mean length of utterances
• Metalinguistic awareness
• Motherese
• Mutual exclusivity bias
• Negative evidence
• Ostensive definitions
• Overextensions
• Overregularization
• Parameter setting
• Phonological awareness
• Prelinguistic communication
• Prosodic factors

Reduction Reduplicated babbling Reduplication Refe
rential strategy Semantic bootstrapping Sequential
bilingualism Simultaneous bilingualism Taxonomic
constraint Underextensions Variegated
babbling Whole object bias

• Assimilation
• Babbling
• categorical perception
• child-directed speech
• Coalescence
• Codability
• Cognitive constraints
• Cooing
• Critical period hypothesis
• Fast mapping
• Feral/isolated children
• 'fis' phenomenon
• Holophrases

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Language development Issues

• Imitation vs. innateness
• Arguments for and against (e.g., critical
  periods)
• Universal (typical) pattern of development
• e.g., 6 months, 12 months,
• Cooing -gt babbling -gt words -gt sentences
• Emergence of syntax and morphology
• What do we learn about language before were
  born?
• Categorical perception in infants
• Extensions of meaning
• One-word per referent heuristic
• Fast mapping
• Whole object constraint, Taxonomic constraint,
  Mutual exclusivity
• Memory (words) and rules approach to
  morphological development
• Feedback negative and positive
• Second language learning

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Brain and language Some terms issues

• Brocas Aphasia
• Conduction aphasia
• Direct electrical stimulation
• ERP technique
• Geschwind Model
• fMRI
• Lateralization of language functions
• Phrenology
• Split brain patients
• Wada technique
• Wernickes aphasia

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Language and thought Some terms

• Basic (focal) color terms
• Categorical perception
• Color hierarchy
• Counting systems (cross-linguistic)
• Codability of color names
• Color discrimination tasks
• Language transfer
• Linguistic determinism
• Linguistic relativity
• Inner speech
• Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Questions?

• Exam format the same as the past two exams
• Multiple choice
• Vocabulary matching
• Short answer
• Slightly longer answers

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Future classes

• Thoughts about future classes
• New textbook, different organization (better I
  think), paperback (less expensive), website, etc.
• More reading of articles, perhaps with thought
  papers and discussion
• Less broad coverage of everything in
  psycholinguistics, more focus on specific
  topics/issues
• Perhaps a 1 day lecture, 2nd day disucussions
• More active exercises (these are hard to come up
  with, suggestions welcome)