Dr.Narasimhan's research uses psycholinguistic experiments and statistical analysis of corpora to investigate the relationship between language and cognition, the acquisition of semantic and discourse-pragmatics in children acquiring a first language, and the crosslinguistic encoding of meaning and argument structure, with a focus on Hindi and Tamil.
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meaning and argument structure, language-cognition relationship, developmental psycholinguistics, children's semantic and pragmatic development, acquisition of verb meaning, argument realization, information structure
LING 3430 - Semantics
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Theoretical and practical study of meaning in natural language. Considers both semantic theories and semantic phenomena from diverse languages.
LING 4100 - Perspectives on Language
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2024
Provides extended critical examination of a few selected issues, chosen each term for their general interest and relevance, e.g., the relation between language and thought, or human language vs. animal languages, and computer languages. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided topics vary. Recommended prerequisite: LING 2000.
LING 4220 - Language and Mind
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2022
Studies topics such a speech perception, word recognition, sentence comprehension, language acquisition, bilingualism, reading and writing. Examines the role of language as a product and producer of the mind, studying interactions between language and cognition from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will become familiar with the methods of psycholinguistics and design and conduct a psycholinguistic experiment on their own. Recommended prerequisites: PSYC 1001 and LING 2000. Same as PSYC 4220.
LING 4830 - Honors Thesis
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Spring 2018
Required for students who elect departmental honors. Students write an honors thesis based on independent research under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
LING 5300 - Research in Psycholinguistics
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2024
After a general introduction to issues and research methods in psycholinguistics (language production and comprehension, language and cognition, language acquisition), several major current research topics, such as models of speech production and theories of brain specialization for language, are explored. Recommended prerequisite: at least one graduate-level course in LING, PSYC or CSCI.
LING 5430 - Semantics and Pragmatics
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2022
Explores fundamental concepts of semantics and pragmatics, including theories of communication and meaning, representation, conversational implications, speech acts, and discourse structure. Recommended prerequisite: LING 5420.
LING 5800 - Open Topics in Linguistics
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Spring 2019
Various topics not normally covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. Contact the department office for information. May be repeated up to 9 credit hours.
LING 6560 - Language Acquisition
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Spring 2018
Theories and research methods in first-language acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Recommended prerequisites: LING 5410 and LING 5420 and LING 5430.
LING 7800 - Open Topics in Linguistics
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Fall 2019
Various topics not normally covered in the curriculum; offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors. Contact the department office for information.
PSYC 4220 - Language and Mind
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2022
Studies topics such a speech perception, word recognition, sentence comprehension, language acquisition, bilingualism, reading and writing. Examines the role of language as a product and producer of the mind, studying interactions between language and cognition from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will become familiar with the methods of psycholinguistics and design and conduct a psycholinguistic experiment on their own. Recommended prerequisites: PSYC 1001 and LING 2000. Same as LING 4220.
