PSYCH 227 / LINGUIST 247 Seminar: Psycholinguistics of Conversational Speech Spring 2005

COURSE INFORMATION
Instructors	Herb Clark, herb@psych.stanford.edu Dan Jurafsky, jurafsky@stanford.edu
Time	Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:15-4:45pm
Location	EDUC:36
Required Work	Read the papers before class Email 3 "questions or comments" on each required reading before class Lead the discussion of 2 papers during the quarter Final project:  a research project,  group (cross-disciplinary) research encouraged. Due the last day of class Other: the London-Lund corpus

	SCHEDULE
Week	Date	Who	Topic and Readings
1	Mar 29		Introduction to the Course
1	Mar 31		Corpora of Conversational Speech
2	April 5	Casey Williams Liz Coppock	Turns and Contributions: Turns Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). "A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation." Language, 50:696--735. Ford, C. and S. A. Thompson.  (1996).  Interactional Units in Conversation: Syntactic, Intonational, and Pragmatic Resources for Turn Management. In E. Ochs, E. Schegloff, and S. A. Thompson, eds.: Interaction and Grammar, Cambridge University Press: 134-184.
2	April 7	Lauren Hall-Lew Inbal Arnon	Turns and Contributions: Contributions Clark, H. H. and E. Schaefer. (1989). "Contributing to discourse." Cognitive Science, 13:259-294. Clark, H. H. (1997). "Dogmas of understanding." Discourse Processes 23(3): 567-598
3	April 12		Common Ground Clark, H. H. and D. Wilkes-Gibbs (1986). "Referring as a collaborative process." Cognition 22: 1-39.. Lockridge, C. B., & Brennan, S. E.  (2002).  "Addressees needs influence speakers early syntactic choices."  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 550-557
3	April 14		Common Ground Horton, W. S., & Keysar, B. (1996). "When do speakers take into account common ground?"  Cognition, 59, 91-117. Schober, M. F., & Brennan, S. E. (2003).  Processes of interactive spoken discourse: The role of the partner.  In A. C. Graesser, M. A. Gernsbacher, & S. R. Goldman (Eds.), Handbook of discourse processes.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
4	April 19		Syntactic alignment (I) Pickering, M. J. & Garrod, S. (2004). "Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue." Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 169-226. Brennan, S. E. & Metzing, C. A. (2004). "Two steps forward, one step back: Partner-specific effects in a psychology of dialogue." Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [in above pdf file]
4	April 21		Syntactic alignment (II) Loebell, H., and Bock, J. K. (2003). Structural priming across languages. Linguistics, 41-5, 791-824. Branigan, H. P., Pickering, M. J., & Cleland, A. A. (2000). Syntactic coordination in dialogue. Cognition, 75, B13-B25. Travis, Catherine E. (2005, ms.) The effects of interaction on structural priming: Subject expression in Spanish conversation vs. narrative. Manuscript draft for this class only.
5	April 26		Fillers Clark, H. H. and J. E. Fox Tree (2002). "Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking." Cognition 84(1): 73-111. Fox  Tree, J. E., & Clark, H. H.  (1997). Pronouncing "the" as "thee" to signal problems  in speaking. Cognition, 62, 151-167.
5	April 28		Fillers Hayashi, M. and Yoon, K. to appear. "A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction: With particular reference to the context of word-formulation trouble." Studies in Language. ?
6	May 3		Repair Schegloff, E. A., G. Jefferson, and H. Sacks. 1977. The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation." Language, 53, 361-382. Levelt, W.J.M. (1983). Monitoring and self-repair in speech. Cognition, 33, 41-103
6	May 5		Phonetics and Listener Modeling Bard, E. G., Anderson, A. H., Sotillo, C., Newlands, A., Doherty-Sneddon, G. and Aylett, M. (2000).  "Controlling the intelligibility of referring expressions in dialogue." Journal of Memory and Language 42, 1-22. Bell, A., D. Jurafsky, E. Fosler-Lussier, C. Girand, M. Gregory, and D. Gildea. (2003). Effects of disfluencies, predictability, and utterance position on word form variation in English conversation." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 113 (2), 1001-1024.
7	May 10		Repair and Syntax Clark, H. H., & Wasow, T. (1998). "Repeating words in spontaneous speech." Cognitive Psychology, 37,  201-242. Fox, B., M. Hayashi and R. Jasperson. (1995.) "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntax and Repair," in E. Ochs and E. A. Schegloff and S. A. Thompson (eds). Interaction and Grammar.  Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
7	May 12		Form Variation: the roles of accessibility and predictability  Jurafsky, Daniel, Alan Bell, and Cynthia Girand. 2002. The Role of the Lemma in Form Variation. In Gussenhoven, Carlos and Natasha Warner (eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology VII. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-34. Jaeger, T. Florian and Tom Wasow. 2005. Processing as a Source of Accessibility Effects on Variation. Final ms. draft for BLS.
8	May 17		Phonetics and Listener Modeling Lindblom, B. (1990). Explaining phonetic variation: A sketch of the H&H theory. In Hardcastle,W J & Marchal, A (eds) Speech production and speech modelling, 403-439. Amsterdam: Kluwer. Den, Y. 2001. Are Word Repetitions Really Intended by the Speaker?. Proceedings of Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech.
8	May 19		Agreement (1) Bock, Kathryn. (1995). Producing Agreement. Current Directions in Psychological Science 4(2),56-61 Bock, Kathryn, Janet Nicol and J. Copper Cutting. (1999). The Ties That Bind: Creating Number Agreement in Speech. JML 40, 330-346. Pearlmutter, Neal J., Susan M. Garnsey and Kathryn Bock. (1999). Agreement Processes in Sentence Comprehension. JML 41, 427-456.
9	May 24		Agreement (2) Bock, Kathryn, Kathleen M. Eberhard, and J. Copper Cutting. (1999). Producing number agreement: How pronouns equal verbs. JML 51, 251-278. Kathryn Bock, Kathleen M. Eberhard, J. Cooper Cutting, Antje S. Meyer, and Herbert Schriefers. (2001). Some attractions of Verb Agreement. Cognitive Psychology 43, 83-128.
9	May 26
10	May 31		Final Project Presentations