Section: WEEK 8: DISCOVERING WORDS April 12 | Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking | DL 1

DL 1

Section outline

The nature of speaking: Recognizing sound bundles and matching them to meanings

Concepts and reference

Reading: Learning words, in Sedivy, ch. 5, part I

Recommended readings:

Productivity and the Mental Lexicon, by Ingo Plag, in Language in Use, pp. 106-13

How do they do it?, by Steven Pinker

Tomasello, Michael, The usage based theory of language acquisition

Web activities, ch. 5/I https://learninglink.oup.com/access/sedivy-2e-student-resources#tag_chapter-05
- Select activity Sedivy, ch. 5, part I
  
  Sedivy, ch. 5, part I File
- Select activity Hearing sounds and discovering words
  
  Hearing sounds and discovering words File
- Select activity HIGHLIGHTS: Learning strategies
  
  HIGHLIGHTS: Learning strategies File
- Select activity Sedivy WORDs ch. 5 outline
  
  Sedivy WORDs ch. 5 outline File
- Select activity Deb Roy, MIT, TED Talk, wiring the house and observing language acquisition of an infant son
  
  Deb Roy, MIT, TED Talk, wiring the house and observing language acquisition of an infant son URL
- Select activity From WORDS to MORPHOLOGY: Questions and CRITICAL ISSUES
  
  From WORDS to MORPHOLOGY: Questions and CRITICAL ISSUES File