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Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking
Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking
WEEK 1: ORIGINS of MODERN MAN and LANGUAGE Feb. 16
WEEK 2: HOW HUMANS INVENT LANGUAGE Feb. 23
WEEK 3: Language and the Brain March 2
WEEK 4: MAPPING LANGUAGE in the BRAIN March 9
WEEK 5: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: LEARNING SOUND PATTERNS March 16
WEEK 6: L ACQUISITION: Sounds and words, part II March 23
WEEK 7: WORDS and GRAMMAR March 30
WEEK 8: LEARNING WORDS: Morphology April 6
WEEK 9: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: BUILDING SENTENCES April 13
WEEK 10: The Syntax Rules April 20
WEEK 11: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY and UNIVERSALS April 27
WEEK 12: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY May 4
WEEK 13: Language diversity; Student presentations May 11
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Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking
WEEK 8: LEARNING WORDS: Morphology April 6
Sedivy ch. 5, part II
Sedivy ch. 5, part II
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◄ Deb Roy, MIT, TED Talk, wiring the house and observing language acquisition of an infant son
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COURSE DESCRIPTION and REQUIREMENTS
Project proposal form
Topics and abstracts of possible projects
J. Sedivy, ch. 2, part I
Language origins: Notes and questions
The day we learned to think, 3-part series
The Origins and Evolution of Language | Michael Corballis, TED
J. Sedivy, ch. 2, part II
Questions to answer
OUTLINE and QUESTIONS tackled in class
Homo naledi
David Premack 2004, Is language the key to human intelligence?
D. Premack on language and intelligence, summary
TED Talk How language transformed humanity, by Mark Pagel
John Searle on cognition and language Summary
Vyvyan Evans Language is not an instinct
Chomsky: Why only us?, summary
TED Talks on human brain
A whistling language used in Turkey
Week 3 Questions to answer assignment
Sedivy ch.3 Genetic anomalies: Notes
Sedivy 3, pp. 56-88 black&white
Sedivy 3 p70, 74
Questions on genetic disorders and other language impairments
Brain parts video
Signs, homesigns, gestures and language change: Notes
How brain processes language
Aitchison, Seeds of Speech, ch. 1-3, 5, 7
M. Hauser, How human mind originated, 2009
Sedivy 3, Brain, part II, pp78-93 in color
Cl. 4, ch. 3 Brain, Part II
Imaging language in the brain, by American Museum of Natural History
Neocortex, TED Talk by H. Markram
Jill Taylor, TED Talk, My Stroke of Insight
The_divided_brain, TED Talk by Iain McGilchrist
Ian McGilchrist, The Divided Brain, notes
Premack, Is Language the Key to Human Intelligence? http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/cogs502/Premack2004.pdf
The Premack question and the theory of mind
Chomsky& Berwick, Why Only Us
Aitchison 6
The day we learned to think, summary article
TED What's so special about our brain, by S. Herculano-Houzel
TED, Visualizing neurons inside the brain, C. Schoonover
A look inside the brain in real time
Sedivy, ch. 4, pp. 105-19
BRAIN FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY: Review questions
Learning from sounds: Notes
REVIEW: Language Files 2 and 2.1, Phonetics
TED Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
Pat Kuhl et al., Language, culture, mind and brain
The Anatomy of Speech, in The Day We Learned to Think - BBC video
How to perceive sound
Jean Aitchison, Seeds of Speechs, chs 2, 3, 5, 7 (Broken Air)
Sedivy, ch. 4, part II
Sounds: Early learning Sedivy 4, part I
HL sounds: Basics, Sedivy 4, part II
Infants' learning from sounds: Questions
Becoming You video series
Place of articulation table
Vowel articulation
Consonant articulation table
Word trees
Notes on Pinker
Pinker, A Digital Mind in an Analog World, ch 10, WordsRules
Kress & Leuwen, Semiotic landscape
Language and the mind, by Raymond Hickey
ch. 5 OUTLINE: Learning Words
HIGHLIGHTS: Learning strategies
Building first words: Notes
Learning words: Questions
Sedivy, ch. 5, part I
Deb Roy, MIT, TED Talk, wiring the house and observing language acquisition of an infant son
The logical minds of babies, TED, by Laura Schultz
How to read each other's mind, by R. Saxe, TED Talk
Word morphology
Morphology: Word trees
Plag, Productivity and the mental lexicon
Ingo Plag: Notes and questions on word formation and rules
notes on Diessel
Diessel, Learning vs growth
R. Hickey, Language and the Mind
Dan Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
The Interpreter, on language of the Piraha
Sedivy, ch. 6
QUESTIONS on syntax
Sentence trees
Syntax notes
Thinking in sentences, notes
TED Neuroscience conversation with Dalai Lama
Tomasello Intending and constructing language
How we read each other's mind, TED Talk by Rebecca Saxe
Lupyan&Bergen, How language programs the mind
St. Pinker Language and social relations, RSA Animates
Tomasello-Bavin, The usage-based theory
Sedivy, ch. 12, part I
QUESTIONS and NOTES
Additional questions on syntax
Class outline: Syntax concl.
Sedivy, ch. 12, Diversity, part II
ch. 12, selected pp.
Diversity notes and questions
Questions and comments; Universals and biases
Words, concepts and culture, Sedivy 12.3 and 12.4
Universals and biases
Bilingualism
How language mediates our thinking
The logical minds of babies, TED, by Laura Schultz ►