LING212 SLA L2 processing and the brain

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LING212- SLAL2 processing and the brain

• Florencia Franceschina

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• Psycholinguistics a branch of linguistics
  which studies the correlation between linguistic
  behaviour and the psychological processes thought
  to underlie that behaviour
• Crystal (2003 380)
• Neurolinguistics a branch of linguistics
  which studies the neurological basis of language
  development and use
• Crystal (2003 312)

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How is language processed?

• Language comprehension
• Exercise Ambiguity resolution problems

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How is language processed?

• Language production
• A blueprint for the speaker (Levelt, 1989, 1999)

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Lexical decision task

• Source Gough and Cosky (1977 278), cited in
  Radford et al. (1999 235)

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• Exercise Speech errors

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How is language represented in the brain?
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Left hemisphere
Right hemisphere
Corpus callosum
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Early days
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Early days
Paul Broca (1824-1880)
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• Cinderella poor um dopted her scrubbed
  floor, um, tidy poor, um dopted si-sisters
  and mother ball.

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Frontal lobe
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Brocas Area
Wernickes Area
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Early days
Paul Broca (1824-1880)
Carl Wernicke (1848-1904)
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• You know that smoodle pinkered and that I want
  to get him round and take care of him like you
  want before.

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Brocas Area
Wernickes Area
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Temporal lobe
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Brocas Area
Wernickes Area
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Modern techniques

• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Positron emission tomography (PET)
• Event-related potentials (ERP)
• Magnetoencelography (MEG)

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MRI of a Brocas aphasic
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MRI of a Wernickes aphasic
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References

• Crystal, David. 2003. A dictionary of linguistics
  and phonetics. Oxford Blackwell.
• Levelt, Willem J M. 1989. Speaking from
  intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA MIT
  Press.
• Levelt, Willem J M. 1999. Producing spoken
  language a blueprint for the speaker. In The
  neurocognition of language, eds. Colin M Brown
  and Peter Hagoort. Oxford Oxford University
  Press. Pp. 83-122.

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Reading

• Obler, Loraine K and Hannigan, Sharon. 1996.
  Neurolinguistics of second language acquisition
  and use. In The handbook of second language
  acquisition, eds. William C Ritchie and Tej K
  Bhatia. San Diego Academic Press. Pp. 509-523.

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Further reading

• Accessible introductions to psycho- and
  neurolinguistics
• Caplan, David. 2000. Neurolinguistics. In The
  handbook of linguistics, eds. Mark Aronoff and
  Janie Rees-Miller. Oxford Blackwell. Pp.
  295-318.
• Fabbro, F. 1999. The neurolinguistics of
  bilingualism an introduction. Hove Psychology
  Press.
• Fromkin, V., Rodman, R. and Hyams, N. 2003. An
  introduction to language. Boston Heinle.
  (Chapters 2 and 9)
• Li Wei ed. 2000. The bilingualism reader. London
  Routledge. (Part III)

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What have we covered so far?

• Factors that influence SLA

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Next term

• Project based
• You will be trained in the use of
• CHILDES http//childes.psy.cmu.edu/
• ICLE (International Corpus of Learner English)
• You may decide to collect your own data (please
  come to see me if you are thinking of doing this,
  as there are a number of practical issues that
  you will need to sort out)