The Language Meeting Group is formed by faculty from both the Psychology, the Communication Disorders, and the English departments. It is also open to students interested in issues related to language. These issues are: cognitive and neural processes underlying language and language development, developmental deficits, bilingualism.
Our monthly meetings involve a discussion on recently published scientific papers and/or ongoing research projects or ideas for projects at SUNY at New Paltz.

This homepage provides information on our next meetings, previous meetings, suggested readings, and news in the field of language.
 

We currently discussing meeting times and topics for the Spring 2005 semester. Information will be provided as soon as possible.
 
 
 

Archive: topics and reading material of our previous meetings
 

September 25, 2002 meeting

Our first meeting focused on a three recent papers (one research paper and two review papers) on Specific Language Impairment (SLI).

Readings:

Pinker, S. (2001). Talk of genetics and vice versa. Nature, 413, 465-466.

Lai, C.S.L., Fisher, S.E., Hurst, J.A., Vargha-Khadem, F. & Monaco, A. P. (2001). A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder. Nature, 413, 519-523.

Harasty, J. & Hodges, J. R. (2002). Towards the elucidation of the genetic and brain bases of developmental speech and language disorders. Brain, 125, 449-451.
 

Further suggested readings:

Watkins KE, Dronkers NF, Vargha-Khadem F. (2002). Behavioural analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: comparison with acquired aphasia. Brain, 125, 452-464.

Watkins KE, Vargha-Khadem F, Ashburner J, Passingham RE, Connelly A, Friston KJ, Frackowiak RS, Mishkin M, Gadian DG. (2002). MRI analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: structural brain abnormalities. Brain, 125, 465-478.
 
 

October 23, 2002 meeting

The discussion focused on stuttering. The readings were:

Bosshardt, H.-G. (2002). Effects of congruent cognitive processing on the fluency of word repetition: Comparison between persons who do and do not stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 27 (2), 93-114.

Trautman, LS, Healey, EC & Norris, JA (2001). The effects of contextualization on fluency in three groups of children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 564-576.

Fox, P.T., Ingham, R.J., Ingham, J.C., Zamarripa, F., Xiong, J-H. & Lancaster, J.L. (2000). Brain correlates of stuttering and syllable production. A PET performance-correlation analysis. Brain, 123, 1985-2004.

Weber-Fox, C. (2001). Neural systems for sentence processing in stuttering. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 814-825.
 
 

November 20, 2002 meeting

The discussion focused on the concept of central executive. The readings were:

Collette F. & Van der Linden M. (2002). Brain imaging of the central executive component of working memory.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review, 26 (2), 105-25.

Baddeley A.D. (2001). Is working memory still working? American Psychologist, 56 (11), 851-64.
 

February 6, 2003 meeting

Dr. Giordana Grossi
"The of tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: A contribution to the problem of proper nouns"
 

March 6, 2003 meeting

Dr. Elizabeth Hester
"Phonological Production, Working Memory, and Reading Decoding".
 

April 10, 2003 meeting

Michael Went
"Introduction to case theory"
 
 

September 25, 2003 meeting
 

Golstein, King & West (2003). Social interaction shapes babbing: Testing parallels between birdsong and speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 100 (13), 8030-8035.

Kuhl (2003). Human speech and birdsong: Communication and the social brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 100 (17), 9645-9646.

Kuhl, Tsao & Liu (2003). Foreign-language experience in infancy: Effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 100 (15), 9096-9101.

February 19, 2004 meeting


Fitch, W. T., & Hauser, M. D. (2004). Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate. Science, 303, 377-380. Premack, D. (2004). Is the language the key to human intelligence? Science, 303, 318-320.

 
 

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Last update February, 2005
grossig@newpaltz.edu
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