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Fall 2022, Monday 9:10–10:40 am, Oct. 3-Dec. 19, 2022
Prof. Eva Eckert, Ph.D. eeck233@gmail.com
Meetings at FF UK, Palachovo nám., rm 326
Office hours: Monday after the class at 10:40 or by appointment
- Course description
HUMAN LANGUAGE and the MIND is a course in human thinking and speaking that deals with psychological, cognitive and anthropological aspects of language as a key to mind, intellect and creativity; interrelation of language, thoughts and brain; language in mediating experience, remembering and creating meaning; the instinctive, emotional and rational in our cognition; pre-linguistic cognition of hominids; children’s language acquisition; language diversity and memory.
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 Student projects |
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sample student projects |
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Research proposal form to be submitted by Nov. 7 |
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| WEEK 1: ORIGINS OF SPEECH and MODERN MAN Oct.3 |
Questions to tackle in class and notes |
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The Day We Learned To Think |
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Designing human language and mind |
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 Julie Sedivy, Language in Mind, Contents |
Julie Sedivy, Language in Mind, Contents |
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 J. Sedivy, Web activities, ch. 2 - 13 |
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TED by Y.N. Harari |
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The duality of patterning |
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cartoon: How we communicate |
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| WEEK 2: HUMAN LANGUAGE cf. animal communication systems 10 October |
Sedivy ch. 2, part I |
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Šedivý, terms and concepts, ch. 2 |
Šedivý, terms and concepts, ch. 2 |
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The day we learned to think, BBC 2003, 3-part series: |
The day we learned to think documentary, BBC, 2003
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TED Talk How language transformed humanity, by Mark Pagel |
Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation. |
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Questions and web activities: Language cf. animal communication systems |
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Class 2 OUTLINE |
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| WEEK 3: INVENTING LANGUAGE 17 Oct. |
Sedivy ch. 2, part II |
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Inventing language in Nicaragua |
Inventing language in Nicaragua |
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OUTLINE and Question: Signs, gestures and language change |
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| Week 4: Brain: Genetic disorders, SLI and dyslexia Oct 24 |
Sedivy, Genetic and language impairment ch. 3 |
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Sedivy ch.3 pictures and graphs in color |
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Notes and Questions: Genetic and other language impairments |
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Questions on Genetic disorders, SLI and dyslexia, Sedivy 3, part 1 |
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Grey matters: Understanding language, U of California lecture by J. Elman |
Brain - min. 21 - 25 Broca's aphasia
using language - min. 28
brain lateralization - min. 43-4 end |
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Human Brain: Major Structures and their Functions |
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| WEEK 5: MAPPING LANGUAGE in the BRAIN Oct 31 |
Questions: Where language is in the brain and how to find out |
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What scans showed |
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Functional anatomy |
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Aphasia and its language effects ppp |
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Science Bulletins: Language in the Brain, Columbia U lab fMRI video |
Science Bulletins: Language in the Brain, Columbia U video |
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Tracing thoughts in your brain in real time, TED Talk by Christopher deCharms 2008 |
technology of self-control of one’s brain – pain, depression, love, anxiety we “feel”
65000 points (or more) of activation in the brain generated by the seen, heard or remembered
Memories form deep channels in the brain
3D models |
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How to look inside the brain, TED Talk by Carl Schoonover, 2012 |
brain’s wiring by staining wiring tissue
neurons entering into circuits
molecular components of neurons |
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The_divided_brain, TED Talk by Iain Mcgilchrist |
The_divided_brain, TED Talk by Iain Mcgilchrist |
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Powerful stroke of insight, TED Talk by Jill Bolte-Taylor |
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TED H. Markram_Neocortex and cerebral columns; and other brain's secrets |
Henry Markram_Supercomputing the_brain's secrets
Neocortex in the human brain |
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| WEEK 6: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: LEARNING SOUND PATTERNS Nov. 7 |
REVIEW Tasking the brain How our mind deals with language sounds |
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L in Mind ch4 Sounds p 105-119 |
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Pat Kuhl, TED Talk |
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Sound assimilation cartoon |
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Consonant chart |
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Consonant symbols and word examples |
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Vowel phonetic symbols and examples |
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Vowel triangle graph |
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Questions |
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| Week 7: How infants learn from the sound input and gain the naming insight Nov. 14 |
Qs Notes Phms perception naming |
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L in Mind ch4 Sounds p 120- |
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Phoneme, categorical perception and naming insight in infant learning |
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| WEEK 8: INFANTS LEARNING WORDS Nov. 21 |
Doing WORDS: Outline, ch. 5 |
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WORD learning notes and Questions |
WORD learning notes and Questions
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Sedivy, ch. 5, Learning words, part I |
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Reading each other's mind, TED Talk by R.Saxe |
How to read each other's mind , TED Talk |
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How children learn words, Deb Roy's TED Talk |
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| Week 9: Complex words: Patterns or rules? Nov. 28 |
Derivational trees of English words |
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Sedivy, ch. 5, Words, part II |
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Word rules, analogy and memory |
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| WEEK 10: LANGUAGE LOGIC: BUILDING SENTENCES Dec 5 |
ch. 6 OUTLINE |
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Language Files 5 Syntax cartoon |
Language Files 5 Syntax cartoon |
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Sedivy, Syntax, ch. 6, part I |
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How our mind builds sentences: The "trees" |
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American high-scholers' sentences to analyze |
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Questions |
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| WEEK 11: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY Dec. 12, 2022 |
Sedivy, ch. 12, pp 471-95 |
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Diversity: Language universals and cognitive biases QUESTIONS |
Diversity: Language universals and cognitive biases QUESTIONS
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| WEEK 12: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY Dec. 19, 2022 |
Sedivy, ch. 12, part 2, pp 496-518 |
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Concepts and words |
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Bilingualism |
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Diversity Questions |
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Diversity: Patterns and biases |
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