Topic guide · Language and communication / Perception, attention and action
What does bilingual language control involve?
Examine how a language-use task is controlled while keeping acquisition history and claims of general cognitive benefit distinct.
Topic guide · Language and communication / Development across life
How do children acquire a language?
Connect theories of acquisition with observable evidence, especially when children cannot explain what they know.
Topic guide · Language and communication / Learning, memory and education
How do we recognise and retrieve words?
Ask what knowing a word involves and how recognition, retrieval and production tasks make different demands on that knowledge.
Topic guide · Language and communication
How do listeners resolve sentence ambiguity?
Represent more than one interpretation of a sentence and distinguish that structural problem from explaining comprehension over time.
Topic guide · Language and communication
How is speech different from language?
Separate a communication medium from linguistic structure, meaning and context, then locate perception and production within that map.
Lectures and explanations
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Lecture 15: Hearing and Speech
Introduces questions about the functional organisation of human hearing, including speech and music.
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Lecture 7 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
Paul Bloom moves from animal communication and language–thought questions into perception, attention and different kinds of memory.
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Lecture 12: Language
Connects speech perception and meaning with the brain basis of language, language difficulties and acquisition, including infant and bilingual examples.
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Lecture 6 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands
Introduces language through sounds, word structure, sentence structure and recursion, alongside arguments about acquisition and specialisation.
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Lecture 18: Language I
Introduces language organisation in the brain and the relationship between language and thought.
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CP and displacement
“CP and displacement” is listed in Language and Mind. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Making of a Sentence (Components)
“Making of a Sentence (Components)” is listed in Principles and Parameters in Natural Language. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Sentence (compliment and adjunct)
“Sentence (compliment and adjunct)” is listed in Language and Mind. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 1: Communication and Language - I
“Lec 1: Communication and Language - I” is listed in The Psychology of Language. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 17: Executive Control: bilingual advantage
“Lec 17: Executive Control: bilingual advantage” is listed in Bilingualism: A cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 29 : IPA Transcription with Field Data
“Lecture 29 : IPA Transcription with Field Data” is listed in Tools and Technologies of Language Documentation. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Bilingualism & Multilingualism: Setting the Ground 1
“Bilingualism & Multilingualism: Setting the Ground 1” is listed in Psychology Of Bilingualism And Multilingualism. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 17 : Morpheme, Morph and Allomorph
“Lecture 17 : Morpheme, Morph and Allomorph” is listed in Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 8: Other variables: CPH and ToM
“Lec 8: Other variables: CPH and ToM” is listed in Fundamentals of Language Acquisition. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 19 : Morphological Processes
“Lecture 19 : Morphological Processes” is listed in Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 21: Aphasia
“Lecture 21: Aphasia” is listed in Introduction to Advanced Cognitive Processes. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.