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Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking
Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking SPRING/SUMMER 2022
WEEK 1: ORIGINS of MODERN MAN and LANGUAGE Feb. 21
WEEK 2: HOW HUMANS INVENT LANGUAGE Feb. 28
WEEK 3: Language and the Brain March 7
WEEK 4: MAPPING LANGUAGE in the BRAIN March 14
WEEK 5: Brain anatomy for language March 21
WEEK 6: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: LEARNING SOUND PATTERNS March 28
WEEK 7: Language ACQUISITION: Sounds, phonemes and words April 4
WEEK 8: DISCOVERING WORDS April 11
WEEK 9: LEARNING WORDS: Morphology April 25
WEEK 10: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: BUILDING SENTENCES May 2
WEEK 11: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY and UNIVERSALS May 9
WEEK 12: LANGUAGE DIVERSITY May 16
WEEK 13: Student presentations and the final test May 23
Student presentations and the written FINAL 2nd term
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Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking
WEEK 9: LEARNING WORDS: Morphology April 25
Sedivy ch. 5, part II
Sedivy ch. 5, part II
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Sedivy 5 Words p164-84 color.PDF
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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 of former students' projects
J. Sedivy, ch. 2, part I
Sedivy ch. 2, web activities
The day we learned to think, 3-part series
The Origins and Evolution of Language | Michael Corballis, TED
Homo naledi
Descartes, Questions and the web
Design features
Questions to tackle in Class 2
J. Sedivy, ch. 2, pp. 31-44, part II
Sedivy ch. 2, web activities https://learninglink.oup.com/access/sedivy-2e-student-resources#tag_chapter-02
Signs, homesigns, gestures and language change: Notes
Birth of a language documentary (Nicaragua sign language)
Language is a cognitive extension of biol. capacities
The day we learned to think, summary article
David Premack 2004, Is language the key to human intelligence?
How language operates in our cognition?
D. Premack on language and intelligence, summary
TED Talk How language transformed humanity, by Mark Pagel
Vyvyan Evans Language is not an instinct
Chomsky: Why only us?, summary
TED Talks on human brain
A whistling language used in Turkey
Questions for Class 3: Signing, Language change and Genetic disorders
Sedivy ch. 2, pp. 44-50 (optionally 50-3), and Sedivy ch. 3, pp. 56-60
Sedivy, ch. 3, web activities https://learninglink.oup.com/access/sedivy-2e-student-resources#tag_chapter-04
Brain structures and functions video
M. Hauser, How human mind originated, 2009
Questions to Tackle: Genes and language disorders, Aphasia
Sedivy 3, Brain, part I, pp. 60-68, and part II, pp.78-93 in color
Sedivy 3 p70, 74
Aphasia and language areas: Specialization and integration (a short video lecture)
Imaging language in the brain, by American Museum of Natural History
Inside the brain in real time: points of activation and neural activity (mins 1-2)
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
Jean Aitchison, The Devious Mind (in The Seeds of Speech), ch. 6
TED What's so special about our brain, by S. Herculano-Houzel
TED, Visualizing neurons inside the brain, C. Schoonover
Cl 5 ch 3, II fMRI L mapping NOTES
Cl 5 ch 3,2 Notes Aphasia Anatomy
Class 5, Questions to tackle
Sedivy, ch. 4, pp. 105-19
Cl 5-6 ch 4, I Questions Learning fr sounds
REVIEW: Language Files 2 and 2.1, Phonetics
LF 2.2-2.6, 2.8 Phonetics
TED Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
Pat Kuhl et al., Language, culture, mind and brain
The Anatomy of Speech: Lowering the larynx, in The Day We Learned to Think video
How to perceive sound: Neural processing sound frequency stimuli >thalamus and cortex
Jean Aitchison, Seeds of Speechs, chs 2, 3, 5, 7 (Broken Air)
Sedivy, ch. 4, part II
Cl 7 ch 4, II Questions and notes: Allophones and phonemes
Consonant articulation: Place and manner
Vowel articulation: Phonetic symbols and words to illustrate
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
HIGHLIGHTS: Learning strategies
Sedivy WORDs ch. 5 outline
Cl 7 ch 5, I Qs Nts Learning Words
Word trees
Learning words: Questions
Sedivy, ch. 5, part I
Deb Roy, MIT, TED Talk, wiring the house and observing language acquisition of an infant son
Cl 8-9 Morph Qs notes
The logical minds of babies, TED, by Laura Schultz
How to read each other's mind, by R. Saxe, TED Talk
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
Obler & Gjerlow
Cl 10 Outline PSYCH of SYNTAX
Sedivy, ch. 6
Sentence trees
Cl 10 Qs review GRAMMAR
Dan Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
The Interpreter, on language of the Piraha
Universal requirements for grammar
REVIEW: Language Files 5, Syntax
TED Neuroscience conversation with Dalai Lama
Syntax notes
Additional questions on syntax
Sedivy, ch. 12, part I
Cl 12 Diversity Qs
Cl 12 ch 12 Diversity NOTES Qs
Sedivy, ch. 12, Diversity, part II
ch. 12, selected pp.
Words, concepts and culture, Sedivy 12.3 and 12.4
Bilingualism
Cl 8-9 Morph Qs notes ►