Instructor (Fall 2002): Dr. Tadao Miyamoto


Course Description:
Offered in collaboration with the Department of Psychology. The psychology of language, examining the process of comprehension and production, including language and cognition, conversational discourse, and inference and semantics, among other topics.

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Course Outline Course Schedule




Class 1:
Comprehension/Production

Class 2:
History
, Semantics

Class 3:
Semantic Models

Class 4:
Figurative Speech

Class 5:
Ambiguity

Class 6:
Speech Act

Class 7:
Discourse

Class 8:
Non-verbal Communication
, Scripts

Class 9:
Chomsky
, Handout

Class 10:
Introduction to Syntax

Class 11:
Sentence Comprehension

Class 12:
Sentence Processing
, Handout

Class 13:
Introduction to Morphology
, Handout

Class 14:
Mental Lexicon

Class 15:
Kanji
, Eye Movements, Kinetic

Class 16:
Phonology

Class 17:
Phonetics

Class 18:
Speech Perception
, Human Speech Recognition
Supplemental documents:
Specific Language Impairment, Speech Impairments

Class 19:
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Class 20:
Aphasia

Class 21:
Biological Language


Supplemetal Documents

The Bilingual Brain
Legal Discourse - Heather Steel
Writing
Cultural Development