Language topic notes

• childhood amnesia (and Simcock, memory notes, 2012)
• 712 video list (Spring, 2010)
• autism --language and mental representation
• brain imaging notes
• consciousness and language
• language functions; newer 2012 notes
• language testing notes
• overview of hearing loss (NYT)
• Sign language dictionary with video
• glossary for clinical cases, e.g. Marshall and Gandour (1988); phonation deficit notes ; Semenza & Zettin (1989) notes
• various examples
• famous sentences in 712
• complex sentences (notes from last year worth reading)
• speech production (lexicon) notes, Hockett's analogy to smashed eggs
• speech assignment notes
• speech demo (in progress). worst and best sounds
• sound notes
• theory of mind (ToM) and language development slides 06
• language evolution (outline08) and acquisition slides/movie 2010
  • revised evolution notes-11; compare apes & neanderthals & humans
• history of language; history of English words (video)
• early symbolic representation
• Rosetta and acquisition analogy slides
• words and lexicalization notes
• Piraha notes
• Mokan myth notes
• FOXP2-12 notes
• Whorfism and linguistic relativity
• sometimes interesting language blogs: Language Log ,
• cognition demos and references
• cerebral specialization and development of lateralized language
• another McGurk demo with story
• meaning
  • example semantic differential info

1. Pinker Ch.1
2. Pinker Ch 2
3. Pinker Ch 3 (revised 2010)
4. Pinker Ch 4
5. Pinker Ch 5 what's in the "mental dictionary" (MD)? Verb argument (despot) info , where is the MD-- at least for reading?
6. Pinker Ch 6 - download pdf (also see sound notes, Marshal et al notes)
7. Pinker Ch 7 comprehension and meaning notes (4/10/2010)
8. Pinker Ch 8
9. Pinker Ch 9 (See notes referred to in daily notes, including ape, neanderthal, human comparisons)
10. Pinker Ch 10