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Human language and mind
WEEK 8: INFANTS LEARNING WORDS Nov. 21
Doing WORDS: Outline, ch. 5
Doing WORDS: Outline, ch. 5
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Final Review Questions
General information
Student projects
sample student projects
Research proposal form to be submitted by Nov. 7
Announcements
Questions to tackle in class and notes
The Day We Learned To Think
Designing human language and mind
Julie Sedivy, Language in Mind, Contents
J. Sedivy, Web activities, ch. 2 - 13
TED by Y.N. Harari
The duality of patterning
cartoon: How we communicate
Sedivy ch. 2, part I
Šedivý, terms and concepts, ch. 2
The day we learned to think, BBC 2003, 3-part series:
TED Talk How language transformed humanity, by Mark Pagel
Questions and web activities: Language cf. animal communication systems
Class 2 OUTLINE
Ch. 2 web activities
Sedivy ch. 2, part II
Inventing language in Nicaragua
Ch. 2 web activities on sign language
OUTLINE and Question: Signs, gestures and language change
Sedivy, Genetic and language impairment ch. 3
Sedivy ch.3 pictures and graphs in color
Notes and Questions: Genetic and other language impairments
Questions on Genetic disorders, SLI and dyslexia, Sedivy 3, part 1
Grey matters: Understanding language, U of California lecture by J. Elman
Human Brain: Major Structures and their Functions
Ch. 3 activities on language impairments
Questions: Where language is in the brain and how to find out
What scans showed
Functional anatomy
Aphasia and its language effects ppp
Science Bulletins: Language in the Brain, Columbia U lab fMRI video
Tracing thoughts in your brain in real time, TED Talk by Christopher deCharms 2008
How to look inside the brain, TED Talk by Carl Schoonover, 2012
The_divided_brain, TED Talk by Iain Mcgilchrist
Powerful stroke of insight, TED Talk by Jill Bolte-Taylor
TED H. Markram_Neocortex and cerebral columns; and other brain's secrets
REVIEW Tasking the brain How our mind deals with language sounds
Research project proposal, required of students with a background in linguistics or psychology
L in Mind ch4 Sounds p 105-119
Pat Kuhl, TED Talk
Sound assimilation cartoon
Consonant chart
Consonant symbols and word examples
Vowel phonetic symbols and examples
Vowel triangle graph
Web activities, ch. 4
Questions
Qs Notes Phms perception naming
L in Mind ch4 Sounds p 120-
Phoneme, categorical perception and naming insight in infant learning
Web activities, ch. 4
WORD learning notes and Questions
Sedivy, ch. 5, Learning words, part I
Reading each other's mind, TED Talk by R.Saxe
How children learn words, Deb Roy's TED Talk
Web activities 5.1-5.4 https://learninglink.oup.com/access/sedivy-2e-student-resources#tag_chapter-05
Derivational trees of English words
Sedivy, ch. 5, Words, part II
Web activities 5.5 and on
Word rules, analogy and memory
ch. 6 OUTLINE
Web activities, ch. 6
Language Files 5 Syntax cartoon
Sedivy, Syntax, ch. 6, part I
How our mind builds sentences: The "trees"
American high-scholers' sentences to analyze
Questions
Sedivy, ch. 12, pp 471-95
Web activities, Language diversity, 12.1-12.2
Diversity: Language universals and cognitive biases QUESTIONS
Sedivy, ch. 12, part 2, pp 496-518
Concepts and words
Bilingualism
Diversity Questions
Web activities 13.3-13.5
Diversity: Patterns and biases
WORD learning notes and Questions ►