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Psych 2760/LING 2760
Human language processing
Spring 2005
Instructor:
Dr. Z. M. Griffin
E-mail:
zenzi.griffin@psych.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-894-6069
Course description:
This is a course in
psycholinguistics: the study of how people understand and produce language.
In understanding, the course covers how people perceive speech sounds,
recognize written and spoken words, comprehend sentences, and make
inferences in interpreting language. In production, the course covers how
people package information for expression, plan utterances, and retrieve
words and sounds. The course is recommended to students with an interest in
language or cognitive science, as well as those interested in language
acquisition, automatic speech recognition & generation, communication, or
human-computer interaction.
Pre-requisites: PSYCH 1101
Recommended: one of the following
courses or other background in language or cognition:
Research Methods:
PSYC 2010
Cognitive
Psychology: PSYC 3011
Social Psychology:
PSYC 2210
Introduction to
Cognitive Science: CS/PST/PSYC/ISYE 3790
Introduction to
Language I or II: LING 2001 or LING 2002
Introduction to
Intelligent Systems: CS4600
Natural language
understanding: CS 4650
Philosophical Issues
in Computation: CS/PST4752
Credit: This
course counts as a PSYCHOLOGY ELECTIVE, towards a certificate in
Linguistics, and may fulfill a [A] area requirement for a minor or
certificate in Cognitive Science.
Likely Topics:
Psycholinguistics:
Explanations, data, and goals in traditional Linguistics vs. Cognitive
psychology;
Biological and Cognitive Foundations of Language;
modularity; language disorders, animal communication
Connectionism
and symbolic models
Language Development,
rationalist/empiricist debates, statistical learning
Visual Word Recognition and Reading,
issues of generalizability
Speech Recognition,
pattern recognition
Parsing,
temporary syntactic ambiguities, incremental understanding
Word Meaning,
concepts, context
Comprehension,
inferences
Language Production
(words, sentences), planning, timing
Sign languages,
language in different modalities
Multiple languages
(bilingual processing)
Shared processes and representations in comprehension and production,
Dialogue, New Directions |
