Master on Linguistics

Advanced Course on Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics

Kepa Erdozia & Itziar Laka

The Advanced Course on Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics is tought by two teachers who divided the course in two parts.

The first part is related to Artificial Language Learning (see below) and the second part is related to Garden Path sentences (more information about the second part of the course in neurolengua)

Artificial Language Learning:

Lectures:

Lecture 1: (pdf

Lecture 2: (pdf)

Lecture 3: (pdf)

 

Readings:

Computing Statistics

Saffran et al. 1996: A classic study of word segmentation from a continuous speech by means of distributional cues.

Gomez and Gerken 1999: 1 year-old babies learning artificial grammar

Peņa et al.2002: Distributional cues in learning dependencies. Only with subliminal pauses.

Saffran 2001: Distributional cues learning complex syntactic structures and rules.

Thompson and Newport 2007: Learning syntax by means of Transitional Probabilities

New Languages

Friederici et al. 2002: Brocanto

Minilanguages (UG vs. Non-UG)

Musso et al. 2003: Germans learning UG and Non-UG rules of Italian and Japanese

Smith et al. 1993: Polyglot Savant

Grammar hierarchy (FSG vs. PSG)

Friederici 2004

Friederici et al. 2006

Marcus et al. 1999