| 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
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| 9th Oct |
Attributive and relational processes in nominal comination |
Estes, Z. |
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| 16th Oct |
Priming the interpretation of noun-noun combinations |
Raffray, C.N., Pickering M. and Branigan, H. |
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| 23rd Oct |
Half-term break |
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| 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. |
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| Second language priming (3 weeks) |
| 8th Nov |
Interaction and syntactic priming: English L2 speakers' production of dative constructions. |
McDonough, K. |
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| 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. |
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| Language in the Brain (1 week) |
| 4th Dec |
A neurocognitive perspective on language: the Declarative/Procedural model |
Ullman, M. T. |
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| 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. |
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| 5th Feb |
Probabilistic word pre-activation during language comprehension inferred from electrical brain activity. |
DeLong, K.A., Urbach, T.P. and Kutas, M. |
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| 12th Feb |
Incremental interpretation at verbs: restricting the domain of subsequent reference. |
Altmann, G. T. and Kamide, Y. |
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| 19th Feb |
Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension |
Arai, M., Gompel, R. P. G. and Scheepers, C. |
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| Language comprehension (1 week) |
| 5th Mar |
Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension |
Ferreira, F., Bailey, K.G.D. and Ferraro, V. |
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| 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. |
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| 4th June |
Putting action in perspective |
Lozano, S.C., Hard, B.M. and Tversky, B. |
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