Language in Mind 2e Student Resources

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Student Resources for Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Second Edition, by Julie Sedivy

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Origins of Human Language

Language and the Brain

Learning Sound Patterns

Learning Words

Learning the Structure of Sentences

Speech Perception

Word Recognition

Understanding Sentence Structure and Meaning

Speaking: From Planning to Articulation

Discourse and Inference

The Social Side of Language

Language Diversity

Science, Language, and the Science of Language

Origins of Human Language

Language and the Brain

Learning Sound Patterns

Learning Words

Learning the Structure of Sentences

Speech Perception

Word Recognition

Understanding Sentence Structure and Meaning

Speaking: From Planning to Articulation

Discourse and Inference

The Social Side of Language

Language Diversity

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Language in Mind 2e Student Resources

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Web Activity 2.1 Considering animal communication

Web Activity 2.2 Finding structure in language

Web Activity 2.3 Children using homesign

Web Activity 2.4 Gestures supporting or replacing speech

Web Activity 2.5 Inventing a sign language

Web Activity 3.1 Dichotic listening task

Web Activity 3.2 Linguistic or paralinguistic?

Web Activity 3.3 N400s and P600s

Web Activity 4.1 Finding word boundaries

Web Activity 4.2 Segmenting speech through phonotactic constraints

Web Activity 4.3 Segmenting “words”: You be the baby!

Web Activity 4.4 Scrambled speech

Web Activity 4.5 The phonetics of beatboxing

Web Activity 4.6 Phonemic distinctions across languages

Web Activity 4.7 Methods for studying perception and learning by infants

Web Activity 4.8 Distinct sounds for babies

Web Activity 4.9 Natural and unnatural sound patterns

Web Activity 5.1 Inferring language meaning

Web Activity 5.2 Using cues from form-meaning correspondences

Web Activity 5.3 Mapping word meanings

Web Activity 5.4 Learning through joint attention

Web Activity 5.5 Context as a clue to word meaning

Web Activity 5.6 Structures for words

Web Activity 5.7 Complex words across languages

Web Activity 6.1 Constituent structure in music

Web Activity 6.2 Rules and constructions

Web Activity 6.3 Discerning the structure

Web Activity 6.4 Finding syntactic categories

Web Activity 6.5 Probing children’s knowledge of syntax

Web Activity 6.6 Natural and unnatural rules

Web Activity 7.1 Testing the limits of automatic speech recognition (ASR)

Web Activity 7.2 Variability in signed language

Web Activity 7.3 Categorical versus continuous perception

Web Activity 7.4 The phoneme restoration effect

Web Activity 7.5 The McGurk effect

Web Activity 7.6 Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Web Activity 8.1 Interconnected words

Web Activity 8.2 Neighborhood density

Web Activity 8.3 Tinkering with models and making predictions

Web Activity 8.4 Bottom-up versus top-down links

Web Activity 8.5 Product names and "sunken" meanings

Web Activity 8.6 Identifying cohort candidates

Web Activity 8.7 Inventing a writing system

Web Activity 8.8 Predict the future of English orthography

Web Activity 9.1 Processing language on the fly

Web Activity 9.2 Ambiguity in music

Web Activity 9.3 When do ambiguities pose processing problems?

Web Activity 9.4 Does prosody disambiguate?

Web Activity 9.5 Create and recognize “easy” versus “hard” ambiguous sentences

Web Activity 9.6 Linguistic predictions

Web Activity 9.7 Test yourself on various memory tasks

Web Activity 9.8 Measuring executive function

Web Activity 9.9 The kindergarten-path effect

Web Activity 10.1 Collecting speech errors

Web Activity 10.2 Digging for data in a corpus

Web Activity 10.3 Locating disfluencies

Web Activity 10.4 Inducing the tip-of-the-tongue state

Web Activity 10.5 (Un)natural methods for studying language production

Web Activity 10.6 Test your skills as a language detective

Web Activity 10.7 Design your own SLIP study

Web Activity 10.8 Explaining and predicting speech errors

Web Activity 11.1 What’s in a mental model?

Web Activity 11.2 Investigating mental models

Web Activity 11.3 What do you remember?

Web Activity 11.4 Activating background knowledge

Web Activity 11.5 Titles in literary texts

Web Activity 11.6 Finding antecedents for ambiguous pronouns

Web Activity 11.7 Scientifically informed editing

Web Activity 11.8 The impact of presuppositions

Web Activity 11.9 How common is metaphorical language?

Web Activity 11.10 Varieties of metaphor

Web Activity 12.1 Communication lapses

Web Activity 12.2 The teaching mode

Web Activity 12.3 Resolving contradictory data

Web Activity 12.4 Hard and soft meanings

Web Activity 12.5 Enriching meanings via conversational maxims

Web Activity 12.6 Difficult and easy implicatures