PSYCH 227 / LINGUIST 247
Seminar: Psycholinguistics of Conversational Speech
Spring 2005

COURSE INFORMATION
Instructors
Herb Clark, herb@psych.stanford.edu
Dan Jurafsky, jurafsky@stanford.edu
Time
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:15-4:45pm
Location
EDUC:36
Required Work
  • Read the papers before class
  • Email 3 "questions or comments" on each required reading before class
  • Lead the discussion of 2 papers during the quarter
  • Final project:  a research project,  group (cross-disciplinary) research encouraged. Due the last day of class
  • Other: the London-Lund corpus


SCHEDULE
Week
Date
Who

Topic and Readings

1
Mar 29

Introduction to the Course

1
Mar 31

Corpora of Conversational Speech

2
April 5

Casey Williams

Liz Coppock

Turns and Contributions: Turns

2
April 7

Lauren Hall-Lew

Inbal Arnon

Turns and Contributions: Contributions

3
April 12

Common Ground

3
April 14

Common Ground

4
April 19

Syntactic alignment (I)

  • Pickering, M. J. & Garrod, S. (2004). "Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 169-226.
  • Brennan, S. E. & Metzing, C. A. (2004). "Two steps forward, one step back: Partner-specific effects in a psychology of dialogue." Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [in above pdf file]
4
April 21

Syntactic alignment (II)

5
April 26

Fillers

5
April 28

Fillers

6
May 3

Repair

6
May 5

Phonetics and Listener Modeling

7
May 10

Repair and Syntax

  • Clark, H. H., & Wasow, T. (1998). "Repeating words in spontaneous speech." Cognitive Psychology, 37,  201-242.
  • Fox, B., M. Hayashi and R. Jasperson. (1995.) "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and Repair," in E. Ochs and E. A. Schegloff and S. A. Thompson (eds). Interaction and Grammar.  Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
7
May 12
  Form Variation: the roles of accessibility and predictability
8
May 17

Phonetics and Listener Modeling
  • Lindblom, B. (1990). Explaining phonetic variation: A sketch of the H&H theory. In Hardcastle,W J & Marchal, A (eds) Speech production and speech modelling, 403-439. Amsterdam: Kluwer.
  • Den, Y. 2001. Are Word Repetitions Really Intended by the Speaker?. Proceedings of Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech.
8
May 19

Agreement (1)
9
May 24

Agreement (2)
9
May 26


10
May 31


Final Project Presentations