| Announcements:
12/7: Final Grades are now posted. Have a great break, everyone! Some interesting relevant sites: Like pictures of brains? Check out the Whole Brain Atlas. - Can you recognize American dialects? - Do you say pop or soda? - Where do they say that weird thing? (or, how do they say that in your state?) |
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| Instructor: | Bob Slevc (email: slevc@psy.ucsd.edu) | |
| Office Hours: Thursday 2-3 at the Mandeville Coffee Cart | ||
| Class website: | http://psy.ucsd.edu/~slevc/psy145/ | |
| Syllabus: | Available in .pdf format (viewable with the free Adobe reader) | |
| Textbook: | Carroll, D. (2004). Psychology of Language (4th edition). | |
| Extra Credit: | You may earn up to three points of extra credit by participating in experiments; sign up at http://www.experimetrix.com/ucsd/ | |
| Course Schedule * | |||||
| Click on the topic for a .pdf version of the relevant lecture slides. (note that these do not contain all material presented in lecture.) |
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| WEEK | DAY | DATE | TOPIC | READING | |
| Thu | 9/21 | Intro | Ch. 1 | ||
| 1 | Tue | 9/26 | Background and Central Issues | pp. 17-33; 51-56 | |
| Thu | 9/28 | Speech Perception | Ch. 4 (63-87) | ||
| 2 | Tue | 10/3 | Word Comprehension | Ch. 5 | |
| Thu | 10/5 | Word Comprehension, continued | |||
| 3 | Tue | 10/10 | Sentence Comprehension Homework #1 due |
Ch. 6 | |
| Thu | 10/12 | Sentence Comprehension, continued | |||
| 4 | Tue | 10/17 | Discourse Comprehension | Ch. 7 | |
| Thu | 10/19 | Discourse, continued | |||
| 5 | Tue | 10/24 | Reading | Ch. 4 (87-96) | |
| Thu | 10/26 | MIDTERM (grades) | |||
| 6 | Tue | 10/31 | Language Production Homework #2 due |
Ch. 8 | |
| Thu | 11/2 | Language Production 2 (Handout of Levelt's Model) |
TBA | ||
| 7 | Tue | 11/7 | Dialogue | Ch. 9 | |
| Thu | 11/9 | Language Acquisition | Ch. 12 | ||
| 8 | Tue | 11/14 | Langauge Acquisition, part 2 Homework #3 due |
Ch. 10 | |
| Thu | 11/16 | SLA & Bilingualism (Sarah Callahan) | Ch. 11 | ||
| 9 | Tue | 11/21 | Animal Communication | Ch. 13 (361-374) | |
| Thu | 11/23 | Thanksgiving -- no class | |||
| 10 | Tue | 11/28 | Brain & Language 1 | Ch. 13 (338-361) | |
| Thu | 11/30 | Brain & Language 2 Homework #4 due |
TBA | ||
| Wed | 12/6 | FINAL | |||
| * This schedule is tentative and subject to change -- check back often for updated information. | |||||