Experimental approaches to Child Language

2022, 2nd Semester

Teacher: Sónia Frota

        

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Course Materials


  Language development in the first years of life

  Experimental approaches 

  Statistics: A note on dependent and independent variables 

  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

  Studying perception in humans and non-humans

   Eye-tracking: an illustrative study

  Early speech perception: Pointing task

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

Access to other bibliography


Kuhl (2004)

Gerken & Aslin (2005)

Gervain& Mehler (2010)

Johnson & Zamuner (2010)