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Psych 8010 –
Seminar in Cognitive Psychology
Individual Differences in Language Production
Instructor: Dr. Zenzi M. Griffin
E-mail: zenzi.griffin @psych.gatech.edu
Fall 2003
Fridays 2:05-4:55 pm 214 J S Coon BLDG
Description
This seminar is designed to provide a quick but in-depth introduction to
language production research, so that no background knowledge of
psycholinguistics is needed (although a background in either Cognitive
Psych, Cognitive Science, or natural language processing will be necessary).
The upper bound of processes considered will probably be macro-planning of
discourse topics (e.g., "Should I mention X now or after I explain Y?") and
the lower bound, phonological planning and intonation (i.e., probably no
motor planning). After this basis is established, the goal will be to read
and discuss papers about individual differences and special populations that
may provide information about how speakers speak or the contribution of
particular processes or properties to that ability. Students with a
background in individual differences research are particularly encouraged to
enroll and share their expertise.
Readings
August 29
Dell, G. S. (1995). Speaking and misspeaking. In L. R. Gleitman & M.
Liberman (Eds.), An invitation
to cognitive science (Vol. 1): Language (2nd ed., pp. 183-208).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Dell, G. S., Chang, F., & Griffin, Z. M. (1999). Connectionist models of
language production: Lexical
access and grammatical encoding. Cognitive Science, 23, 517-542.
September 5
Krauss, R. M., & Chiu, C.-Y. (1998). Language and social behavior. In D. T.
Gilbert, S. T. Fiske & G.
Lindzey (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology (Vol. II, pp.
41-88). Boston MA: McGraw-Hill.
Bortfeld, H., Leon, S. D., Bloom, J. E., Schober, M. F., & Brennan, S. E.
(2001). Disfluency rates in conversation:
Effects of age, relationship, topic, role, and gender. Language and
Speech, 44, 123-147.
September 12
Kemper, S. K., & Kemtes, K. (2000). Aging and message production and
comprehension. In D. C. S. Park,
Norbert (Ed.), Cognitive aging: A primer. (pp. 197-213).
Philadelphia, PA, US: Psychology Press.
Pushkar, D. B., Basevitz, P., Arbuckle, T., Nohara-Leclair, M., Lapidus, S.,
Peled, M. (2000). Social behavior and
off-target verbosity in elderly people. Psychology & Aging, 15,
361-374.
Clark, H. H. (2000) Speaking in time. Speech communication, 36, 5-13.
September 19
Class cancelled
September 26
Snowdon, D. A., Kemper, S. J., Mortimer, J. A., Greiner, L. H., Wekstein, D.
R., & Markesbery, W. R. (1996).
Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer's
disease in late life: Findings from the
Nun Study. JAMA: Journal of the
American Medical Association, 275, 528-532.
(no PDF but readable on-line thru Tech)
Kemper, S., Herman, R. E., & Lian, C. H. T. (2003). The costs of doing two
things at once for young and older
adults: Talking while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech of
noise. Psychology & Aging, 18,
181-192.
Martin, R. C., Miller, M., & Vu, H. (in press). Lexical-semantic retention
and speech production: Further evidence
from normal and brain-damaged participants for a phrasal scope of
planning. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
October 3
Dabbs, J. M., Evans, M. S., Hopper, C. H., & Purvis, J. A. (1980).
Self-monitors in conversation: What do they
monitor? Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 39(2),
278-284.
Keysar, B., & Henly, A. S. (2002). Speakers' overestimation of their
effectiveness. Psychological Science, 13(3),
207-212.
Christenfeld, N. (1995). Does it hurt to say um? Journal of Nonverbal
Behavior, 19, 171-186.
October 10
Postma, A. (2000). Detection of errors during speech production: A review of
speech monitoring models.
Cognition, 77, 97-131.
Frith, C. D. (1992). The cognitive neuropsychology of schizophrenia.
Hove UK: Erlbaum. Chapter 5.
Vasic, N., & Wijnen, F. (to appear). Stuttering as a monitoring deficit. In
R. Hartsuiker, R. Bastiaanse, A. Postma,
& F. Wijnen (Eds). Phonological encoding and monitoring in normal
and pathological speech. Hove
UK: Psychology Press.
October 17
Throneburg, R. N., & Yairi, E. (2001). Durational, proportionate, and
absolute frequency characteristics of
disfluencies: A longitudinal study regarding persistence and recovery.
Journal of Speech, Language, &
Hearing Research, 44, 38-51.
Meyer, J. R. (1992). Fluency in the production of requests: Effects of
degree of imposition, schematicity and
instruction set. Journal of Language
and Social Psychology, 233-251.
October 24
Ambrose, N. G., & Yairi, E. (2002). The Tudor Study: Data and ethics.
American Journal of Speech-Language
Pathology, 11, 190-203.
Holtgraves, T. (1997). Styles of language use: Individual and cultural
variability in conversational indirectness.
Journal of Personality & Social
Psychology, 73, 624-637.
Greene, J. O., & Lindsey, A. E. (1989). Encoding processes in the production
of multiple-goal messages. Human
Communication Research, 16,
120-140.
October 31 (* outlines/abstracts due)
Carstensen, L. L., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Charles, S. T. (1999). Taking time
seriously: A theory of socioemotional
selectivity. American Psychologist,
54, 165-181.
Green, G. M. (1989). Pragmatics and natural
language understanding. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Chapter 7.
Pasupathi, M., Henry, R. M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2002). Age and ethnicity
differences in storytelling to young
children: Emotionality, relationality and socialization.
Psychology & Aging, 17, 610-621.
November 6
Psychonomics - class canceled.
November 13
Dewaele, J.-M., &
Furnham, A. (1999). Extraversion: The unloved variable in applied linguistic
research.
Language Learning, 49(3),
509-544.
Matthews, G. A., &
Harley, T. A. (1993). Effects of extraversion and self-report arousal on
semantic priming: A
connectionist
approach.
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 65(4),
735-756.
Pennebaker, J. W.,
Mehl, M. R., & Niederhoffer, K. G. (2003). Psychological aspects of natural
language use:
Our words, our
selves.
Annual Review of Psychology, 54,
547-577.
November 20
Mehl, M. R., &
Pennebaker, J. W. (2003). The sounds of social life: A psychometric analysis
of students' daily
social environments and natural conversations.
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,
84(4), 857-870.
Pennebaker, J. W., &
King, L. A. (1999). Linguistic styles: Language use as an individual
difference. Journal of
Personality & Social Psychology,
77(6), 1296-1312.
Pennebaker, J. W., &
Stone, L. D. (2003). Words of wisdom: Language use over the life span.
Journal of
Personality & Social Psychology,
85(2), 291-301.
Requirements
Students taking the
course for credit will be expected to present a paper (or related set of
papers), lead a discussion on it (them), and participate in discussions
(30%), plus write an outline /introductory paragraph (due Oct. 31; 10%) and
a literature review/experiment proposal about an approved and
course-relevant topic (due Dec. 11; 60%). Anyone sitting in on the course
may be asked to present a paper too. |
