Course number
LINGUIST 247 / PSYCH 227
Instructor
| Name: | Judith Degen |
| Contact: | jdegen@stanford.edu |
| Office: | 420-114 |
Instead of office hours, please book a meeting at jdegen.youcanbook.me if you would like to meet.
Course description
This year’s seminar “Advanced Topics in Psycholinguistics” will focus on experimental pragmatics. The field of experimental pragmatics combines an interest in the theoretical complexities of language use with the experimental methodologies of psycholinguistics. The course will present a broad survey of recent work in this area that has attempted to apply the methods of experimental psychology to classic issues in theoretical pragmatics. Each class session will include both theoretical and experimental readings on topics such as reference, implicature, and presupposition. The course will be organized primarily around discussion of the assigned readings. Students will develop a research proposal relevant to issues in language use. May be repeated for credit.
Goals and assessment
To familiarize themselves with the debates in the recently emerging field of experimental pragmatics, students will read and present relevant papers. Students taking the course for two units are expected to read, present, and participate. Students taking the course for four units are additionally expected to submit an original research project proposal that includes a literature overview.
Schedule
The course will meet Tuesdays from 3-5:50pm in Room 240-201.
Schedule
| Date | Topic | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | Course planning; overview | Grice 1975; Goodman & Frank 2016 |
| Oct 02 | Scalar implicature | Bott & Noveck 2004; Breheny et al 2006 |
| Oct 09 | Said vs implicated; variability across inferences | Doran et al 2012; van Tiel et al 2016; Degen 2015 |
| Oct 16 | Alternatives | Barner et al 2011; Papafragou & Musolino 2003; Loftus & Palmer 1974 |
| Oct 23 | Adjective processing / contrastive inferences | Sedivy et al 1999; Grodner & Sedivy 2011 |
| Oct 30 | Perspective-taking | Keysar et al 2000; Heller et al 2008; Hawkins et al 2018 |
| Nov 06 | Overinformativeness | Sedivy 2003; Engelhardt et al 2006; Gatt et al 2013; Rubio-Fernandez et al under review |
| Nov 13 | Prosody | Ito & Speer 2008; Kurumada et al 2014; Roettger & Franke under review |
| Nov 20 | Social meaning | Campbell-Kibler 2008; Levon 2014 |
| Dec 4 | Presupposition | Tonhauser et al 2018; XXX |