Experimental approaches to Child Language

2020, 2nd Semester

Teacher: Sónia Frota

        

Course Materials


  Language development in the first years of life

  Experimental approaches 

  Early speech perception: Non-nutritive sucking

  Early speech perception: Head-turn preference procedure

  Early speech perception: Looking while listening methods

  Early speech perception: Eye-tracking

  Early speech perception: Pointing task

   Eye-tracking: an illustrative study

  Studying perception in humans and non-humans

  Research paper guidelines and illustration

   Introduction to non-behavioral methods

  Early speech perception: EEG/ERP

  Early speech perception: NIRS

Approaches to the study of production

A look across species

Exercises

Videos


http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies.html
 (P. Kuhl, The linguistic genius of babies)

http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/babylab/pt/como_paradigma.html

http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/babylab/pt/como_movimento.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew5-xbc1HMk (Estudo de discriminação de sons nativos e não nativos, de Janet Werker e colegas)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfOtEjZFaq4 (Estudo de aprendizagem inicial de palavras com eye-tracking, Lisbon Baby Lab)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J-JflThHks (Os bebés e a discriminação visual – Baby Sinapse Connection)


Texts


Nazzi et al
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Werkes & Tees
Bernal et al.
Curtin
Brandt et al.
Weikum et al.
Ramus et al.
Toro et al.
Friederici et al.
Parisi.

Access to other bibliography


Kuhl (2004)

Gerken & Aslin (2005)

Gervain& Mehler (2010)

Johnson & Zamuner (2010)