Readings from previous years can be found below:
[2016-2017]
[2015-2016]
[2014-2015]
[2013-2014]
[2012-2013]
[2011-2012]
[2010-2011]
Discussed Spring 2018
Adger, D. 2017. Restrictiveness matters. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 138-139.
Bowling, D. L. 2017. The continuing legacy of nature versus nurture in biolinguistics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 140-141.
Johnson, M. 2017. Marr's levels and the minimalist program. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 171-174.
Kirby, S. 2017. Culture and biology in the origins of linguistic structure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 118-137.
Perfors, A. 2017. On simplicity and emergence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 175-176.
Bowling, D. L. 2017. The continuing legacy of nature versus nurture in biolinguistics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 140-141.
Johnson, M. 2017. Marr's levels and the minimalist program. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 171-174.
Kirby, S. 2017. Culture and biology in the origins of linguistic structure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 118-137.
Perfors, A. 2017. On simplicity and emergence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(1), 175-176.
Discussed Winter 2018
Dye, M., Milin, P., Futrell, R., & Ramscar, M. 2017. Cute Little Puppies and Nice Cold Beers: An Information Theoretic Analysis of Prenominal Adjectives. In CogSci 2017: Computational Foundations of Cognition. 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK. Cognitive Science Society.
Freudenthal, D., Pine, J. M., Jones, G., & Gobet, F. 2016. Developmentally plausible learning of word categories from distributional statistics. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 674-679.
Hochstein, L., Bale, A. & Barner, D. 2017: Scalar implicature in absence of epistemic reasoning? The case of autism spectrum disorder. Language Learning and Development, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2017.1343670.
Tanaka-Ishii, K. 2017. Long-Range Correlation Underlying Childhood Language and Generative Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03645.
Freudenthal, D., Pine, J. M., Jones, G., & Gobet, F. 2016. Developmentally plausible learning of word categories from distributional statistics. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 674-679.
Hochstein, L., Bale, A. & Barner, D. 2017: Scalar implicature in absence of epistemic reasoning? The case of autism spectrum disorder. Language Learning and Development, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2017.1343670.
Tanaka-Ishii, K. 2017. Long-Range Correlation Underlying Childhood Language and Generative Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03645.
Discussed Fall 2017
Orita, N., Vornov, E., Feldman, N., & Daumé III, H. 2015. Why
discourse affects speakers' choice of referring expressions. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 1639-1649.
Perkins, L., Feldman, N., & Lidz, J. 2017. Learning an Input Filter for Argument Structure Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2017), 11-19.
Stevens, J. S., de Marneffe, M. C., Speer, S. R., & Tonhauser, J. Rational use of prosody predicts projection in manner adverb utterances. Proceedings of CogSci2017.
Yoon, E. J., Tessler, M. H., Goodman, N. D., & Frank, M. C. 2017. "I won't lie, it wasn't amazing": Modeling polite indirect speech. Proceedings of CogSci2017.
Perkins, L., Feldman, N., & Lidz, J. 2017. Learning an Input Filter for Argument Structure Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2017), 11-19.
Stevens, J. S., de Marneffe, M. C., Speer, S. R., & Tonhauser, J. Rational use of prosody predicts projection in manner adverb utterances. Proceedings of CogSci2017.
Yoon, E. J., Tessler, M. H., Goodman, N. D., & Frank, M. C. 2017. "I won't lie, it wasn't amazing": Modeling polite indirect speech. Proceedings of CogSci2017.