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BIOLOGICAL
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HUMAN LANGUAGE
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YOUR TEACHER
James Myers (³Á³Ç)
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Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers at ccu dot edu dot tw
http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers
Thursday (§«ô¥|) 10-12, or set up another time
YOUR TEACHING ASSISTANT
YOUR OTHER TEACHING ASSISTANT
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g8915001@ccunix.ccu.edu.tw
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spn6794@ms17.hinet.net
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GOALS

 After a few months, you will know something about...¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@¡@
  • what makes human language human
  • how language works in the brain
  • what babies are telling us about the nature of language
  • how DNA might affect language
  • what happens to language between your ears and mouth
  • how scientists study all of these things
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    TEXTBOOK Pinker, Steven (1994) The Language Instinct. William Morrow & Co.
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    *** IMPORTANT ***
    YOU MUST BUY THIS TEXTBOOK!
    PIRACY («Dªk½¦L) WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
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    GRADING SYSTEM
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    Homework is due at the beginning of class. Exams will be short. Questions in the homework might be in English, but you may give answers in Chinese. Questions in the tests will be in Chinese!

    SCHEDULE ( * marks when homework is due)
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    WEEK TOPICS/ACTIVITIES READINGS
    2/21 What is this class about? ¡@
    2/28 NO CLASS: ©M¥­¬ö©À¤é ¡@
    3/7 Is language an "instinct"? Pinker ²Ä1¡B2³¹
    *3/14 Does language create thought? Pinker ²Ä3³¹
    3/21 How does language work? Pinker ²Ä4³¹
    *3/28 What are words made out of? Pinker ²Ä5³¹
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    4/11 Where are the sounds of language? Pinker ²Ä6³¹
    4/18 TEST 1 ¡@
    4/25 How does language go in and out? Pinker ²Ä7³¹
    5/2 Is there only one human language? Pinker ²Ä8³¹
    *5/9 Why is babytalk so complicated? Pinker ²Ä9³¹
    5/16 Is there "language DNA"? Pinker ²Ä10³¹
    *5/23 How did human language get started? Pinker ²Ä11³¹
    5/30 What will be the future of human language? ¡@
    6/6 TEST 2 ¡@
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    SOME OTHER GOOD BOOKS ABOUT (PSYCHO)LINGUISTICS

    Aitchison (1998) The Articulate Mammal. Routledge.

    Akmajian, Demers and Harnish (1995) Linguistics: An Introduction to
    Language and Communication.     (Fourth Edition). MIT Press.

    Carroll (1999) Psychology of Language (Third Edition).
    Brooks/Cole.

    Crystal (1997) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Second
    Edition). Cambridge University Press.

    Fromkin and Rodman (1998) An Introduction to Language (Sixth
    Edition). Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

    Jackendoff (1994) Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human
    Nature.     Basic Books.

    O'Grady and Dobrovolsky (1996) Contemporary Linguistic Analaysis:
    An Introduction.     (Third Edition). Copp Clark Ltd.

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