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Course
Description |
Lexical
access in language production: From words to phrases (to sentences)
Herbert Schriefers
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The course will start with some general
considerations concerning the psycholinguistics of language production
(observational methods (e.g. speech errors) versus experimental methods etc).
Then I will focus on experimental investigations of lexical access in simple
word production. Finally, we will take a look at the processes playing a role
in the production of (simple) phrases. If there is still some time left, we
might also have a look at studies addressing language production at the level
of the sentence.
With respect to all topics, the focus will be
on experimental approaches (as opposed to observational data) and on the
cognitive processes involved in language production. This also implies that the
course will not cover language production from a "conversational
perspective" or a "language-as-(cooperative)- action"
perspective.
The general goal of the course is to provide
basic knowledge of a psycholinguistic framework of language production, and a
“feeling” for the experimental approaches that are used in the field (including
critical discussion of the approaches and open questions).
In the following a short indication of what
will be covered in the different sessions. For each session, two to three
readings are given. The first of these readings for each session should be
studied in any case. The other readings are optional, providing more in depth
information.
Lecture 1. General
overview PowerPoint
Presentation
- a
framework for language production
- different
views of language production
- the
tension between experimental and observational methods
Required readings:
Optional readings:
Lecture 2. Lexical
access in language production PowerPoint Presentation
- theories of lexical access
(two-stage vs cascading vs feedback)
-
experimental studies (picture naming, picture-word-interference etc)
- the case
of bilinguals: lexical access in a second language
-
production of pronouns
- context
effects
Required readings:
Optional readings:
Lecture 3. Lexical access in language production: Event related
brain potentials PowerPoint Presentation
- event
related brain potentials
- studies
using the lateralized readiness potential (LRP)
- N400
studies
Required readings:
Optional readings:
Lecture 4. From words to phrases
PowerPoint Presentation
- advance
planning: how much of an utterance do we plan before we start
articulation?
- advance
planning and verbal working memory
- advance
planning at the phonological level
- the
retrieval and use of lexical syntactic properties: the case of grammatical
gender
Required readings:
Optional readings:
Lecture 5. PowerPoint Presentation PowerPoint Presentation
The contents of this session will depend on
what we have been achieved so far. Given the present program, I think that we
will need (at least part of) session 5 to cover material that we did not manage
to cover during sessions 1 through 4. If there is some time left, we will turn
to issues of sentence production, presumably focusing on studies addressing the
factors affecting the computation of number agreement between subject and verb
in a sentence. In this case, the suggested reading is:
Required readings:
Bock, K. & Miller, C.A. (1991).
Broken agreement. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 45-91.