Instructor: Dr. Nancye Roussel
Office: Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 215
Office Phone: 482-6727
E-mail: ncroussel@louisiana.edu
Website:
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ncr3025/roussel/homepage.htm
Course Description:
In this graduate level seminar, we will attempt to discover the origins of language in the human infant and in the process study the emergence of the capacity for verbal language i.e. speech in the first year year of life. Issues and themes to be covered will include the infant's initial perceptual capacities, developmental change in perception (specifically perception of speech), the interaction of speech perception & speech production, the development of prosodic elements of speech & effects on segmental aspects of language, the influence of ambient language on perception/production, and biological constraints on speech production & possible universal perceptual biases. We will begin by reading several review chapters from influential researchers in the areas of child phonology, developmental psychology and speech & hearing science. We will then extend our reading into the relevant research (last 5 years) in the areas identified above as well as specific areas of interest identified by course participants.
Requirements:
Schedule of Readings:
Aug 29
Vihman, MM (1996). Theoretical perspectives. (pp13-49) Phonological development: The origins of language in the child. Cambridge,MA: Blackwell Press.
Polka, Jusczyk and Rvachew (1995). Methods for studying speech perception in infants and children.(pp. 49-89). In W. Strange (Ed.) Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in cross-language research. Baltimore: York Press.
Kent, Ray (1992). The biology of phonological development (pp65
- 90). In Ferguson, Menn, Stoel-Gammon (Eds.) Phonological development:
models, research, implications. Timonium, MD: York Press.
Sept 5
Vihman, MM (1996). Initial perceptual capacities (pp. 50-71). Phonological development: The origins of language in the child. Cambridge,MA: Blackwell Press.
Vihman, MM (1996). Developmental change in perception (pp. 73-95). Phonological development: The origins of language in the child. Cambridge,MA: Blackwell Press.
Jusczyk, Hohne and Mandel (1995). Picking up regularities in the
sound structure of the native language (pp.91-119). In W. Strange
(Ed.) Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in cross-language
research. Baltimore: York Press.
Sept. 12
Werker, J. & Pegg, J.(1992). Infant speech perception & phonological acquisition (pp. 285-311). In Ferguson, Menn, Stoel-Gammon (Eds.) Phonological development: models, research, implications. Timonium, MD: York Press.
Best, C. (1995). A direct realist view of cross-language speech
perception. In W. Strange (Ed.)
Speech Perception and Linguistic
Experience: Issues in cross-language research. Baltimore: York
Press.
Sept. 19
Kuhl, P & Iverson, P. (1995). Linguistic experience and the "perceptual magnet effect". In W. Strange (Ed.) Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in cross-language research. Baltimore: York Press.
Nazzi, T., Jusczyk, P. & Johnson, E. (2000). Language discrimination by English-learning 5-month-olds: Effects of rhythm and familiarity. Jn. of Memory & Language 43, 1-19.
Mattys, S & Jusczyk, P. (2001). Do infants segment words or
recurring contiguous patterns? Jn of Experimental Pyschology:Human
Perception & Performance, 27, 644-655.
Sept 26
Paper 1 due with discussion in class
Oct 3 - Fall Break
Oct 10
Vihman, MM (1996). Infant vocal production (pp.98-118). Phonological development: The origins of language in the child. Cambridge,MA: Blackwell Press.
Locke, J. & Pearson, D. (1992). Vocal learning & the emergence of phonological capacity. In Ferguson, Menn, Stoel-Gammon (Eds.) Phonological development: models, research, implications. Timonium, MD: York Press.
Oct. 17
Oller, D.K. (2000). The emergence of the speech capacity. Mahweh, NJ: Erlbaum Chapters 3, 4 & 5
Oct. 24
Oller, D.K. (2000) The emergence of the speech capacity. Mahweh, NJ:Erlbaum Chapters 6, 7 & 8
Oller, DK, Eilers, RE, Neal, AR & Schwartz, HK (1999). Precursors to speech in infancy: The prediction of speech and language disorders. Jn of Communication Disorders, 32 (4), pp. 223-245. (Plus response by Rhea Paul following the article - about 3 pages)
Oct. 31
Ertmer, DJ & Mellon, JA. (2001) Beginning to talk at 20 months: Early vocal development in a young cochlear implant recipient. JSHR, 44, 192-206.
Wallace, V, Menn, L & Yoshinaga-Itano, C (1998) Is babble the gateway to speech for all children? A longitudinal study of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Volta Review, 100 (5), pp.121-148.
Rvachew, S, Slawinski, EB, Williams, M & Green, CL (1999). The impact of early onset otitis media on babbling and early language development. Jn of the Acoustical Sociaety of America, 105 (1), pp. 467-475.
Nov 7
Oller, DK, Eilers, RE, Urbano, R & CoboLewis, AB (1997). Development of precursors to speech in infants exposed to two languages. Jn of Child Language, 24 (2), pp.407-425.
CoboLewis, AB, Oller, DK, Lynch, MP & Levine, SL (1996). Relations of motor and vocal milesones in typically developing infants and infants with Down Syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100 (5) pp. 456-467.
Levin, K. (1999). Babbling in infants with cerebral palsy. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 13 (4), pp. 249-267.
Nov 14
Sheinkopf, SJ, Mundy, P, Oller, DK amd Steffens, M. (2000). Vocal atypicalities of preverbal autistic children. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 30 (4), pp. 345-354.
Velleman, S & Vihman, M.(2002). Whole-word phonology and templates: Trap, bootstrap or some of each? Language, Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools, 33, pp.9-23.
Davis BL & MacNeilage, PF (1995). The articulatory basis of
babbling. JSHR, 38 (6), pp.1199-1211.
Nov 21 - ASHA
Nov 28 - Thanksgiving
Dec 5
Paper 3 due with discussion in class