LPRG aims to meet every Monday at 11am in S38 to discuss recent and classic papers in cognitive basis of language processing, with special emphasis on dialogue.

Reading list

Date Title Author Comments
Priming and compounding (3 weeks)
2nd Oct Relation and lexical priming during interpretation of noun-noun combinations Gagné, C.L.

"pretty close to an example of abstract semantic priming"

Murphy's schema-based theory click here

9th Oct Attributive and relational processes in nominal comination Estes, Z.  
16th Oct Priming the interpretation of noun-noun combinations Raffray, C.N., Pickering M. and Branigan, H.  
23rd Oct Half-term break    
Bilingual dialogue (1 week)
30th Oct Use and acquisition of idiomatic expressions in referring by native and non-native speakers Bortfeld, H. and Brennan, S.E.  
Second language priming (3 weeks)
8th Nov Interaction and syntactic priming: English L2 speakers' production of dative constructions. McDonough, K.  
13th Nov Cross-linguistic priming of syntactic hierarchical configuration information Desmet, T. and Declercq, M. We've skipped Gries and Wulff (2005), but if you want to have a quick look at it, there's a short (poster) version here.
Bilingualism and task switching (2 weeks)
20th Nov How Do Highly Proficient Bilinguals Control Their Lexicalization Process? Costa, A., Santesteban, M. and Ivanova, I. Also see: Costa & Santesteban (2004)
27th Nov The organization of multiple languages in polyglots: Interference or independence? Proverbio, A.M., Roberta, A. and Zani, A.  
Language in the Brain (1 week)
4th Dec A neurocognitive perspective on language: the Declarative/Procedural model Ullman, M. T.  
Evolution of language and dialogue (2 weeks)
15th Jan The faculty of language: what’s special about it? Pinker, S. and Jackendoff, R. Pinker and Jackendoff is a response to Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (2002) which can be accessed here.
22nd Jan Cortical memory mechanisms and language origins Francisco Aboitiz, Ricardo R. García, Conrado Bosman and Enzo Brunetti You can also find Arbib's recent paper in BBS on mirror-neurons here.
Overlap in production and comprehension (4 weeks)
29th Jan Do people use language production to make predictions during comprehension? Pickering, M. and Garrod, S.  
5th Feb Probabilistic word pre-activation during language comprehension inferred from electrical brain activity. DeLong, K.A., Urbach, T.P. and Kutas, M.  
12th Feb Incremental interpretation at verbs: restricting the domain of subsequent reference. Altmann, G. T. and Kamide, Y.  
19th Feb Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension Arai, M., Gompel, R. P. G. and Scheepers, C.  
Language comprehension (1 week)
5th Mar Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension Ferreira, F., Bailey, K.G.D. and Ferraro, V.  
Models of language processing (3 weeks)
12th Mar Becoming syntactic (pg 234-244) Chang, F., Dell, G.S. and Bock, K. Part I: Dual path model
19th Mar Becoming syntactic (pg 245-256) Chang, F., Dell, G.S. and Bock, K. Part II: Structural priming
26th Mar Becoming syntactic (pg 257-265) Chang, F., Dell, G.S. and Bock, K. Part III: Language acquisition
Preferential looking (1 week)
23rd Apr Combining Techniques to Reveal Emergent Effects in Infants' Segmentation, Word Learning, and Grammar Hollich, G. The book chapter on preferential-looking paradigm (supplementary reading) can be found here
Embodied approaches to language
28th May Structured connectionist models of language, cognition and action Chang, N., Feldman, J. and Narayanan, S.  
4th June Putting action in perspective Lozano, S.C., Hard, B.M. and Tversky, B.