Language Acquisition



Psycholinguistics and Research Methods for Graduate Students – 922

2012-2013

Dr. Sharon Armon-Lotem

Description: The course will focus on clinical aspects of psycholinguistics with a strong emphasis on language acquisition and language impairments (both developmental and acquired). The course will discuss both theoretical and empirical issues from different theoretical perspectives: developmental psycholinguistics, the generative (nativist) theory and the connectionist perspective. The course will explore methodological issues related to experimental design and statistical analysis of findings

Requirements: Attendance and Class participation

Reading for each topic

Grade composition: Class participation 10%,

Stats assignment/s 20%

Final exam 70%

Outline

|Topic |Date |Reading |

|Module I - Fundamentals of psycholinguistics | | |

|1.1 Introduction |24.10 | |

|Descriptive statistics |31.10 |F&H 109-139 |

|1.2. The Mental Lexicon |7.11 |Pastizzo and Feldman |

|1.3. Sentence processing |14.11 |Altman |

| Some parametric statistics – t-tests & ANOVA |21.11 |F&H 159- 212 |

|1.4. Language Acquisition: Stages & Theories |28.11- 5.12 |Crain |

|1.5. Language Acquisition in Special Circumstances |12.12 |Paradis |

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|Module II – Research methods in psycholinguistics | | |

|2.1. Using narratives in data collection - methods and analysis |19.12 |Iluz-Cohen and Walters |

|On non-parametric statistics + learning to use excel |26.12 |F&H 234-257 |

|2.2. Spontaneous production data |2.1 |Rowland |

|2.3. Production tasks: Elicited imitation & Elicited production |9.1 |Lust et al & Clark |

|2.4. Comprehension tasks: Picture selection, Judgment & Truth-Value Judgment |16.1 |Gerken and Shady Gordon |

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|Final exam |30.1 | |

Office: BS Building (901), Room 415

Office hours: by appointment (03-5317159 or armonls@mail.biu.ac.il)

Course webpage: in

Readings

Module I

Altman, G. T. M. 1998. Ambiguity in sentence processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2 (4), 146-152

Crain, S. 1991. Language Acquisition in the Absence of Experience. Behavioral and brain Sciences 14, 597-602, 605-606, 611. Or in P. Bloom (ed.) Language acquisition. 364-376, 381-384, 396-397 + Peer Commentary by Berman, Grant & Karmiloff-Smith, Lowenthal and Slobin.

Paradis, J. 2010. The interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics 31, 227–252

Pastizzo, M.J. & L.B. Feldman. 2009. Multiple dimensions of relatedness among words: Conjoint effects of form and meaning in word recognition. The Mental Lexicon. 4(1): 1–25

Module II

Clark, E. V. 1999. Coining new words: Old and new word forms for new meanings. In L. Menn and N. Bernstein Ratner (eds.) Methods for Studying Language Production. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates: London, pp. 53-68

Clasen, H. 2008. Behavioral Methods for Investigating Morphological and Syntactic Processing in Children. In I. Sekerina, E. Fernández & H. Clahsen, (eds.), Developmental psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing. Benjamins: Amsterdam, pp. 1-27.

Gerken, L., and M. E. Shady. 1996. The picture selection task. In D. McDaniel, C. McKee and H. Smith Cairns (eds.) Methods for Assessing Children’s Syntax. MIT Press, pp. 125-146

Gordon, P. 1996. The Truth Value Judgment task. In D. McDaniel, C. McKee and H. Smith Cairns (eds.) Methods for Assessing Children’s Syntax. MIT Press, pp. 211-232.

Lust, B., Flynn, S., and C. Foley. 1996. What children know about what they say: elicited imitation as a research method for assessing children syntax. In D. McDaniel, C. McKee and H. Smith Cairns (eds.) Methods for Assessing Children’s Syntax. MIT Press, pp. 55-76.

Rowland, C. F., Fletcher, S. L. and D. Freudenthal. 2008. How big is big enough? Assessing the reliability of data from Naturalistic samples. In H. Behrens (ed.) Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, Methods and Perspectives. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/New York, pp 1-24

Statistics

Field, A. & G. Hole. 2003. How to design and Report Experiments. London: A Sage Publications Company.

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