24.905
Laboratory in Psycholinguistics
See description under subject 9.59[J] .
Spring 2017 · Lab in Psycholinguistics
Topics
- Introduction to the Course: Experimental Methods, Constraints on Language, Mechanical Turk, R/statistics
- Quantitative Methods: Quantitative Syntax, Descriptive Statistics and Plotting
- Language as Communication, Part 1
- Language as Communication, Part 2
- Language Processing Over a Noisy Channel, Part 1
- Language Processing Over a Noisy Channel, Part 2
- What Makes a Long-Distance Extraction Unacceptable?
- Pragmatics: The Use of Referring Expressions
- The On-Line Computation of Pragmatic Information, Student Presentations of Projects
- Student Presentations of Projects
- The Foreign Language Effect: Thinking in a Froeign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases
- Syntactic Priming
- Color Language, Help with Projects and Oral Presentations
- Language and Thought: Number
- Culture and Language: Recursion
Readings
- Topic: 1: Course introduction · reading: No required readings
- Trueswell, J., and M. Tanenhaus. “Toward a Lexical Framework of Constraint-Based Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution.” Perspectives on Sentence Processing (1994): 155-179.
- Bergen, Leon, Roger Levy, and Edward Gibson. “Verb Omission Errors: Evidence of Rational Processing of Noisy Language Inputs.” Cognitive Science . 2012.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 9.59[J] Prereq: None U (Spring) 3-3-6 units. Institute LAB
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2017
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.