Pre-Workshop Materials

To access the following readings, please follow the links below or contact langsci.elsl@ubc.ca.

Language Revitalization

Pine, Turin.  2017. Language Revitalization. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.  DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.8UBC 

Language Acqusition

Wojcik, de la Cruz-Pavia, Werker. 2017. Language Acquisition. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.56 

(Neuro) Computation

Wehbe, Fyshe, Mitchell. (In press.) Language processing in the brain:  Mapping neural activity to language meaning. Human Language: from Genes and Brains to Behavior, MIT Press (to appear)

Alona Fyshe – Artificial Intelligence with connections to neuroimaging. 2017.  Presentation, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Youtube (Kendrick Kay) 

Literacy

Cain. 2010.  Reading Development and Difficulties. BPS Textbooks in Psychology. BPS Blackwell/John Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-405-15155-9 

  • Chapter 4 – Learning to read words
  • Chapter 5 – The development of reading comprehension

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