Syllabus

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Course Schedule

Week Date (T/Th) Topic Required Reading L: Lecture; T: Tutorial Student demo (in class); Assignments
1 Mar 25 Overview L: Linguistic research and methods
1 Mar 27 No class Libben (2017); PS14: Chp8
(optional: LSR; Py)
2 Apr 1 Lexical access & word processing Sedivy20: Chp8 L: Lexical access and priming effect
T: A2 Lexical decision task
(PCIbex setup and manual material creation)
2 Apr 3 PS14: Chp7; Ibex; PCIbex No student demo;
A1 due
3 Apr 8 Glass24 (Chp4) L: Word meaning and vector space
T: A3 Calculating semantic similarity (Python)
T: A3 (PCIbex setup)
3 Apr 10 SLP Chp6 S: A2 demo; A2 due
4 Apr 15 Kutas et al. (2011); Hale (2001) L: Prediction
T: A4 Calculating surprisal (Python)
T: A4 Plotting bar graphs (R)
4 Apr 17 Michaelov et al. (2022); Python minicons tutorial; LSR: Part4 S: A3 demo; A3 due
5 Apr 22 Sentence processing Sedivy20: Chp9.1-9.4; Phillips et al. (2011) L: Syntactic ambiguity and errors
T: A5 Self-paced reading task
(PCIbex setup & data collection)
5 Apr 24 PS14: Chp2; Ibex S: A4 demo; A4 due
6 Apr 29 Glass24 (Chp2.4); Arehalli & Linzen (2020) L: Surprisal in language processing
T: A6 Plotting line graphs (R)
T: A6 Calculating surprisal (Python)
6 May 1 LSR: Part4; Python minicons tutorial S: A5 demo; A5 due
7 May 6 Library information session [TBA]
L/T: Research proposal workshop
7 May 8 PS14: Chp8 Final project topic should be confirmed by the instructor by Week 7
8 May 13 Conducting research PS14: Chp1 More topics and methods
8 May 15 Wrap-up S: A6 demo; A6 due
9 May 20 Final representation
9 May 22 Final representation Final report due May 30 (May 29 for graduating students)

Assignments

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A1: Tell us about yourself! Using R and Python

A2: Lexical decision task

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Introduction to R, Python, and (PC)Ibex

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See tutorials below: