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Human language and mind: Thinking and speaking
WEEK 2: HOW HUMANS INVENT LANGUAGE March 1
Chomsky: Why only us?, summary
Chomsky: Why only us?, summary
Completion requirements
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Why Only Us.docx
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◄ Vyvyan Evans Language is not an instinct
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COURSE DESCRIPTION and REQUIREMENTS
Project proposal form
Topics of former students' projects
Announcements
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
ORIGINS AND UNIQUE NATURE OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
2.3 Signs, homesigns and gestures
2.4 Language change and adaptation
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
Birth of a language documentary (Nicaragua sign language)
The day we learned to think, summary article
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
Vyvyan Evans Language is not an instinct
A whistling language used in Turkey
Dolphins' whistles
Cl 2.1 HL and animal comm
Cl 2.2 Language structure
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
Cl 3 Qs Signing
Cl 3 Language change
M. Hauser, How human mind originated, 2009
Sedivy 3, Brain, part I, pp. 60-68, and part II, pp.78-93 in color
Genetic and linguistic impairments
Brain structures and functions video
QUESTIONS: Brain introduction
Sedivy 3 p70, 74
Aphasia and language areas: Specialization and integration (a short video lecture)
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
BRAIN Intro
Imaging language in the brain, by American Museum of Natural History
Research project proposal form
TED, Visualizing neurons inside the brain, C. Schoonover
A. Damasio, Convergence zones in cortex: Brain Yields New Clues On Its Organization For Language
Review of functional anatomy
OUTLINE: Learning from language sounds
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
Sounds 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
Sedivy, ch. 5, part I
Hearing sounds and discovering words
HIGHLIGHTS: Learning strategies
Sedivy WORDs ch. 5 outline
Deb Roy, MIT, TED Talk, wiring the house and observing language acquisition of an infant son
From WORDS to MORPHOLOGY: Questions and CRITICAL ISSUES
Sedivy ch. 5, part II
Words: from sound bundles to grammar
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
Sedivy, ch. 6, Syntax
REVIEW: LF cartoon, Syntax
Sentence trees
Qs Syntax
Dan Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
The Interpreter, on language of the Piraha
Universal requirements for grammar in the mind
The Mystery of Memory, Nobel prize of Eric Kandel
Outline and notes
Syntax notes
Sedivy, ch. 12, part I
Questions on DIVERSITY
Diversity notes and Qs
Sedivy, ch. 12, Diversity, part II
ch. 12, selected pp.
Words, concepts and culture, Sedivy 12.3 and 12.4
Bilingualism
A whistling language used in Turkey ►