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Psychology of Language Page Professor Will Langston

News/Notes	Week of 12/9/19 The class is complete Exam 1 study guide/Exam 1 Exam 2 study guide/Exam 2 Final Study Guide/Final Exam A note about dois (digital object identifiers): dois link directly to articles. You can click the doi links on this page to go to a downloadable copy of the articles. However, you need to be on a computer in MTSU's domain to take advantage of the library's subscription to the journals. If you click dois at home, you will probably be asked to pay for each article. Sometimes the doi will not link to the library's subscription automatically. In those cases, search for the article in PsycInfo and you can get it there.
Syllabus	Psychology of Language Syllabus/Psychology of Language 5820 Syllabus
Course Notes	Lang Notes 1 -- Introduction/History Lecture 1 powerpoint Lang Notes 2 -- Language Lecture 2 powerpoint Lang Notes 3 -- Speech Perception Lecture 3 powerpoint "Friday reading" Galantucci, B., Fowler, C. A., & Turvey, M. T. (2006). The motor theory of speech reviewed. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 361-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03193857 "Friday reading" Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2002). Grounding language in action. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 558-565. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03196313 "Friday reading" Brass, M., Bekkering, H., & Prinz, W. (2001). Movement observation affects movement execution in a simple response task. Acta Psychologica, 106, 3-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0001-6918(00)00024-X Lang Notes 4 -- Speech Production Lecture 4 powerpoint "Friday reading" Fox Tree, J. E., & Tomlinson, J. M. (2008). The rise of like in spontaneous quotations. Discourse Processes, 45, 85-102. doi:10.1080/01638530701739280 Lang Notes 5 -- Fonts, Visual Perception, and Reading Lecture 5 powerpoint "Friday reading" Miellet, S., O'Donnell, P. J., & Sereno, S. C. (2009). Parafoveal magnification: Visual acuity does not modulate the perceptual span in reading. Psychological Science, 20, 721-728. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02364.x "Friday reading" Perea, M., Duñabeitia, J. A., Carreiras, M. (2008). R34D1NG WORD5 W1TH NUMB3R5. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 237-241. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.34.1.237 Lang Notes 6 -- The Lexicon Lecture 6 powerpoint "Friday reading" Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T. (1997). A solution to Plato's problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review, 104, 211-240. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.104.2.211 "Friday reading" Jay, T. (2009). The utility and ubiquity of taboo words. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 153-161. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01115.x "Friday reading" Nelson, L. D., & Simmons, J. P. (2007). Moniker maladies: When names sabotage success. Psychological Science, 18, 1106-1112. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.02032.x Lang Notes 7 -- Syntax Lecture 7 powerpoint "Friday reading" Jones, M. N., & Mewhort, D. J. K. (2007). Representing word meaning and order information in a composite holographic lexicon. Psychological Review, 114, 1-37. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.114.1.1 "Friday reading" Scheepers, C., Sturt, P., Martin, C. J., Myachykov, A., Teevan, K., & Viskupova, I. (2011). Structural priming across cognitive domains: From simple arithmetic to relative-clause attachment. Psychological Science, 22, 1319-1326. doi:10.1177/0956797611416997 Lang Notes 8 -- Semantics and Discourse Lecture 8a powerpoint Lecture 8b powerpoint "Friday reading" Speer, N. K., Reynolds, J. R., Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2009). Reading stories activates neural representations of visual and motor experiences. Psychological Science, 20, 989-999. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02397.x "Friday reading" Tabossi, P., Fanari, R., & Wolf, K. (2009). Why are idioms recognized fast? Memory and Cognition, 37, 529-540. doi:10.3758/MC.37.4.529 "Friday reading" Kruglanski, A. W., Crenshaw, M., Post, J. M., & Victoroff, J. (2007). What should this fight be called? Metaphors of counterterrorism and their implications. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8, 97-133. Direct link to the pdf "Friday reading" Johnson, D. I. (2008). Modal expressions in refusal of freinds' interpersonal requests: Politeness and effectiveness. Communication Studies, 59, 148-163. doi:10.1080/10510970802062477 "Friday reading" Lamont, P. (2007). Paranormal belief and the avowal of prior skepticism. Theory and Psychology, 17, 681-696. doi:10.1177/0959354307081624 "Friday reading" Leaper, C., & Ayres, M. M. (2007). A meta-analytic review of gender variations in adults' language use: Talkativeness, affiliative speech, and assertive speech. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 328-363. doi:10.1177/1088868307302221 "Friday reading" Newman, M. L., Groom, C. J., Handelman, L. D., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Gender differences in language use: An analysis of 14,000 text samples. Discourse Processes, 45, 211-236. doi:10.1080/01638530802073712 "Friday reading" Van Swol, L. M., Braun, M. T., & Malhotra, D. (2012). Evidence for the Pinocchio Effect: Linguistic differences between lies, deception by omissions, and truths. Discourse Processes, 49, 79-106. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2011.633331 Lang Notes 9 -- Biological basis, language evolution, and development Lecture 9 powerpoint "Friday reading" Liszkowski, U., Schafer, M., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. Psychological Science, 20, 654-660. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02346.x "Friday reading" Goldstein, M. H., & Schwade, J. A. (2008). Social feedback to infants' babbling facilitates rapid phonological learning. Psychological Science, 19, 515-523. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02117.x "Friday reading" Uther, M., Knoll, M. A., & Burnham, D. (2007). Do you speak E-NG-L-I-SH? A comparison of foreigner- and infant-directed speech. Speech Communication, 49, 2-7. doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.10.003 "Friday reading" Yuan, S., & Fisher, C. (2009). "Really? She blicked the baby?" Two-year-olds learn combinatorial facts about verbs by listening. Psychological Science, 20, 619-626. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02341.x
Praat	Praat will allow you to play with phonology on your computer. You can download Praat from here. To do the examples in notes 4 (I'm using the Mac version): Click on the Praat objects window and choose new. Choose "Record mono sound..." Click record and say the syllable(s) (e.g., /di/ and /du/) Click "Save to list" Click the sound and click "Edit" You will see the spectrogram. Praat does a lot more than this. You might be interested in playing around with it.
Links	Speech related links: Go crazy with speech analysis (it's related to ghost hunting, but it covers an amazing amount of speech recognition material). Check out the EVP gallery as well Categorical perception experiment (try it and see) An example of the McGurk effect (listen with your eyes shut and watch the video) Another example of the McGurk effect Here's some top-down processing: Read about it here (listen to the audio file at the bottom first) Here's a really good example of phonemic restoration. You might ask yourself why some work better than others and if there's a visual analog of the auditory one (you'll see in some of the videos). (This one in particular: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/40087) North American dialect map Fonts: How passionate can people get over fonts? This passionte http://bancomicsans.com/main/ Here's a for instance http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11582548 Some of the people writing the original complaint emails are failing to get the point about fonts: http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/mixedcase.asp Syntax: Read a paper from the postmodernist generator Places to go: Linguistic Studies Minor Linguistics Club at MTSU Words: The word detective (where did that come from?) Who decides? We vote, apparently (no endorsement of content): http://www.urbandictionary.com/ Stuck in a tip-of-the-tongue state? Try this http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue// Here are some nice fake origin stories http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/lesson.asp LSA: http://lsa.colorado.edu/ Slang: http://slangcity.com/ Resources Is this an example of schema knowledge application? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIdI8khMkw&feature=player_embedded Isn't it ironic? Not so much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYq2d7iKKhk Want more Ladle Rat Rotten Hut? Here's the whole book. (It was written by Howard L. Chace.) Live reading For urban legends, I suggest a look here (but, it could turn into a major time sponge). Linguistics stuff at http://www.linguistlist.org/ Some split brain stuff (including a chance to try some experiments) http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/split-brain/index.html What does the fox say? http://failblog.cheezburger.com/share/54458625#.UixoUGpwS98.email
Reaction Papers	Reaction papers should be one typed, double-spaced page. You should cite sources and include references as relevant, references will not count in your page total. All papers should be submitted electronically. Please title your paper "LastnameWRR#.doc" For example, my second paper would be "LangstonWRR2.doc" I can only email graded papers to MTSU email addresses, so please submit from your MTSU email addresss. What will get me excited about a reaction paper: React based on something else you've learned in the class ("when we discussed language, you said...but this article said..." or "here's another example of..."). Bring things together in a new and interesting way. React based on something you know about another part of psychology that relates to psychology of langauge. How does this idea lead to new research questions? Make me say "this person is insane, but that's a really cool idea." Explore absurd places to take the research. What won't get me excited about a reaction paper: "This article was really easy/hard to read/understand." A personal anecdote; overturning data with an anecdote "There were only five participants in the study which seems like too few." I don't want a showboating critique, talk to me about ideas. Two pages of summary followed by "I really liked this article." A "reflection." In fact, calling it a reflection report will piss me off. Remember: If you choose an article that I decide to incorporate in the class notes in the future, I will give you extra points (at least two, maybe more if it's really good).

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