ENG511 Handouts by VUBuddy

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Psycholinguistics
2. The nature of language: psycholinguistics
3. The Scope of Psycholinguistics
4. Language processes and linguistic knowledge
5. The Historical Context
6. Early psycholinguistics
7. The information-processing system
8. Working memory and long term memory
9. Central issues in language processing
10. Examples of language processing
11. Development of processing system
12. Developing working and long term memory
13. Perception of Language
14. The structure of speech
15. Perception of Isolated Speech Segments
16. The motor theory of speech perception
17. Perception of Continuous speech
18. Perception of Written Language
19. Phonological Knowledge
20. Phonological knowledge: conceptual and empirical issues
21. Syntactic Knowledge
22. Children’s Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge
23. Morphological Knowledge
24. Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Morphological Awareness Intervention
25. Semantic knowledge
26. The concept of a Semantic Network
27. Hierarchical Network Models
28. Spreading Activation Models
29. Advantages and disadvantages of semantic differential scale
30. Semantic Barriers
31. Models of Lexical Access
32. Difference between logogen and cohort model
33. Variables That Influence Lexicon Access
34. Lexical Ambiguity
35. Appraising Models of Lexical Access
36. Stages of lexis in speech production
37. Parsing
38. Parsing strategies
39. Modular Versus Interactive Models
40. Constraint based model
41. Working Memory and Comprehension
42. Incomplete or Inaccurate Representations
43. Comprehending figurative language
44. Types of Figurative Language iii
45. Studies of Figurative Language Comprehension
46. Comparison and contrast pragmatic theory and conceptual metaphor theory
47. Class inclusion theory
48. Comparative Figurative Languages
49. Memory for Meaning Versus Surface Form
50. Time course of retention and pragmatic factor
51. Inferences and Sentence Memory.
52. False recognition errors
53. Propositions and Sentence Memory
54. Analysis of propositions, sentences and clause type
55. Local and Global Discourse Structure
56. Discourse Structure: Theory, Practice and Use
57. Cohesion
58. Strategies Used to Establish Coherence
59. Identifying new topics of discourse
60. Role of Working Memory
61. Memory for discourse
62. Surface Representations
63. Propositional Representations
64. Inferences and Propositional Representations
65. Situational Models
66. Simultaneous Investigations of All Three Levels
67. Schemata
68. Genres
69. Narrative Discourse Processing
70. Inaccessibility of Knowledge
71. Identifying the Main Points
72. Building Global Structures
73. Sign language: a true language without speech
74. Speech-based sign languages
75. Basic Grammatical Concepts
76. Insights from Sign Language
77. Transformational Grammar
78. Issues in grammatical theory
79. Introduction of production of speech language
80. Slips of Tongue
81. Types of Error Speech
82. Common properties of speech error
83. Explanations of Speech Errors
84. Differences in Freudian and psycholinguistics explanation
85. Serial Models of Linguistic Planning
86. Independence of planning unit
87. Editing Processes
88. Freud’s view of slips of tongue
89. Parallel Models of Linguistic Planning
90. The role of agreement iv
91. Articulating Planning and production cycles articulating
92. Planning and production articulating cycle
93. Self-Monitoring
94. Editing expressions
95. Insights from Sign Language
96. Production rate
97. The structure of conversation
98. Opening Conversations
99. Closing Conversations
100. Taking Turns
101. Negotiating Topics of Conversations
102. Identifying Participants and Nonparticipants
103. Friends and Acquaintance
104. Gender Differences in Conversation
105. More recent work on interpreting the conversational strategies
106. Conversational Settings
107. Therapeutic Discourse
108. Other forms of institutional discourse
109. Prelinguistic Communication
110. Prelinguistic gestures
111. Early Phonology
112. Early words on lexical development
113. Early Grammar
114. Emergence of grammatical categories
115. Later Grammar
116. Cross-linguistics differences in later grammar
117. Metalinguistic and Discourse
118. Discourse Processes in children
119. Language in School
120. Reading and language development
121. Contexts of Childhood& Bilingualism
122. Bilingual First-Language Acquisitions
123. Second Language Acquisitions
124. Metalinguistic awareness
125. Cognitive control
126. Problem solving and creativity
127. Introduction of process of language acquisition
128. Feral and Isolated Children
129. The Critical Period Hypothesis
130. Critical period effects in second language learning
131. Motherese
132. Some characteristics of adult speech to children
133. Cognitive processes
134. Operating Principles
135. Sensorimotor Schemata
136. Whole Object Bias and Taxonomic Bias