Jan, 2002 Charles Perfetti

This outline conveys the general order of topics and tentatively assigned readings, which may be altered during the term. For complete references, see the Reference List.

1. Broad Perspectives on Language & Cognition

            Chomsky (1986); Bransford & Johnson (1972)

2. The Organization of the Language Processors
1. Modularity & Autonomy; Fodor (1983)
2. Symbolic and Connectionist Approaches
1. Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. & Seidenberg, M.S. (Eds.) (1999). Connectionist models of human language processing: Progress and prospects.
2. McClelland (1988)
3. Berent, Pinker & Shimron (1999). Default nominal inflection in Hebrew: evidence of mental variables, Cognition 72, 1-44
 
3. Sentence Comprehension
1. Parsing. Mitchell (1994); Frazier (1987); MacDonald et al (1994)
 
4. Spoken Language
1. Production. W. Levelt, A Blueprint of the speaker. In Brown, C. & Hagoort, P. (1999) The Neurocognition of Language (Oxford University Press, 1999) Chpt 4 Spoken Word Recognition. Lively, S.E., Pisoni, D.B., & Goldinger, S.D. (1994).

    

2. Perception and comprehension. A. . Cutler & C. Clifton, A Blueprint of the listener. Chapter 5 in Brown & Hagoort

6. Written Language
1. Comprehending Written Language. C. Perfetti, A Blueprint of the reader, Chapter 6 in B&H.
2. Models of Word Reading
1. Distributed (PDP) Models. Seidenberg & McClelland (1989); Plaut et al (1996); van Orden et al (1990)
2. Dual Route Models. Coltheart et al (1993)
3. Two-Cycles Model. Berent & Perfetti (1995)
3. Writing System Influences. Perfetti et al (1992)
4. Word Meaning. Simpson (1994)
5. Text comprehension. Kintsch (1988); Fletcher (1994); Graesser, A. C., Millis, K.K., & Zwaan, R.A. (1997)
1. Situation Models; Zwaan, R. A. & Radvansky, G. A (1998)
2. The Construction-Integration Model; Kintsch (1988)
3. Individual differences in comprehension. Gernsbacher (1990); Perfetti (1994)