Formal, computational models of how people learn, process, and produce language play a prominent role in modern psycholinguistics. This course surveys the field, with a focus on probabilistic models.
Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Presenter |
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1.1 | Sep 20 | Introduction to computational modeling | Klinton | |
1.2 | Sep 22 | Speech perception | Feldman, Griffiths, & Morgan (2009) [pdf] | Klinton |
2.1 | Sep 27 | Speech perception (cont.) | Kronrod, Coppess, & Feldman (2012) [pdf] | Klinton |
2.2 | Sep 29 | Pragmatics | Frank & Goodman (2012) [doi/nu, si] | Steven |
3.1 | Oct 4 | Syntactic learning: word order | Culbertson & Smolensky (2012) [doi/nu] | Ethan |
3.2 | Oct 6 | catch-up day | ||
4.1 | Oct 11 | Word learning | Frank, Goodman, & Tenenbaum (2009) [pdf] | Steven |
4.2 | Oct 13 | Word segmentation | Goldwater, Griffiths, & Johnson (2009) [doi/nu] | Haley |
5.1 | Oct 18 | Syntactic production: priming | Jaeger & Snider (2013) [doi/nu] | Yunyan |
5.2 | Oct 20 | Syntactic processing | Levy (2008) [pdf] | Wei |
6.1 | Oct 25 | Language change | Maurits & Griffiths (2014) [pdf, si] | Haley |
6.2 | Oct 27 | Visual word recognition | Norris (2006) [doi/nu] | Yunyan |
7.1 | Nov 1 | Speech perception: the ideal adapter | Kleinschmidt & Jaeger (2015): part 1 + appendix [doi/nu] | Jordan |
7.2 | Nov 3 | Speech perception: multiple talkers | Kleinschmidt & Jaeger (2015): parts 2–3 [doi/nu] | Jordan |
8.1 | Nov 8 | Syntactic learning: grammar class | Perfors, Tenenbaum, & Regier (2011) [doi/nu] | Matthew |
8.2 | Nov 10 | Syntactic production | Jaeger (2010) [doi/nu] | Ethan |
9.1 | Nov 15 | Reading | Bicknell & Levy (2010) [pdf], Bicknell & Levy (2012) [pdf] | Klinton |
9.2 | Nov 17 | Phonotactic learning | Goldsmith & Riggle (2012) [doi/nu] | Matthew |
10.1 | Nov 22 | Finish up phonotactics; Wrap-up discussion | Klinton | |
Dec 5 | Final paper due |