Readings from previous years can be found below:
[2017-2018]
[2016-2017]
[2015-2016]
[2014-2015]
[2013-2014]
[2012-2013]
[2011-2012]
[2010-2011]
Discussed Spring 2019
Berent, I., & Marcus, G. 2019. No integration without structured representations: Response to Pater. Language.
Dunbar, E. 2019. Generative grammar, neural networks, and the implementational mapping problem: Response to Pater. Language.
Linzen, T. 2019. What can linguistics and deep learning contribute to each other? Response to Pater. Language.
Pater, J. 2019. Generative linguistics and neural networks at 60: Foundation, friction, and fusion. Language.
Pearl, L. S. 2019. Fusion is great, and interpretable fusion could be exciting for theory generation: Response to Pater. Language.
Potts, C. 2019. A case for deep learning in semantics: Response to Pater. Language.
Rawski, J., & Heinz, J. 2019. No free lunch in linguistics or machine learning: Response to Pater. Language.
Dunbar, E. 2019. Generative grammar, neural networks, and the implementational mapping problem: Response to Pater. Language.
Linzen, T. 2019. What can linguistics and deep learning contribute to each other? Response to Pater. Language.
Pater, J. 2019. Generative linguistics and neural networks at 60: Foundation, friction, and fusion. Language.
Pearl, L. S. 2019. Fusion is great, and interpretable fusion could be exciting for theory generation: Response to Pater. Language.
Potts, C. 2019. A case for deep learning in semantics: Response to Pater. Language.
Rawski, J., & Heinz, J. 2019. No free lunch in linguistics or machine learning: Response to Pater. Language.
Discussed Winter 2019
Fitz, H., & Chang, F. 2017. Meaningful questions: The acquisition of
auxiliary inversion in a connectionist model of sentence
production. Cognition, 166, 225-250.
Hahn, J. Degen, N. Goodman, D. Jurafsky, & and Richard Futrell. 2018. An information-theoretic explanation of adjective ordering preferences. In Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
McCoy, R. T., Linzen, T., & Frank, R. 2018. Revisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09091.
Nordmeyer, A. & M. Frank. 2018. Early Understanding of Pragmatic Principles in Children's Judgments of Negative Sentences. Language Learning and Development, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2018.1463850.
Tessler, M. H., & Franke, M. 2018. Not unreasonable: Carving vague dimensions with contraries and contradictions. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.
Hahn, J. Degen, N. Goodman, D. Jurafsky, & and Richard Futrell. 2018. An information-theoretic explanation of adjective ordering preferences. In Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
McCoy, R. T., Linzen, T., & Frank, R. 2018. Revisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09091.
Nordmeyer, A. & M. Frank. 2018. Early Understanding of Pragmatic Principles in Children's Judgments of Negative Sentences. Language Learning and Development, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2018.1463850.
Tessler, M. H., & Franke, M. 2018. Not unreasonable: Carving vague dimensions with contraries and contradictions. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.
Discussed Fall 2018
Bentz, C., Alikaniotis, D., Cysouw, M., & Ferrer-i-Cancho,
R. (2017). The entropy of words—learnability and expressivity across
more than 1000 languages. Entropy, 19(6), 275-306.
Gauthier, J., Levy, R., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2018). Word learning and the acquisition of syntactic--semantic overhypotheses. arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04988.
Linzen, T., & Oseki, Y. (2018). The reliability of acceptability judgments across languages. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 1-25.
White, A. S., Hacquard, V., & Lidz, J. (2018). Semantic information and the syntax of propositional attitude verbs. Cognitive Science, 42(2), 416-456.
Gauthier, J., Levy, R., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2018). Word learning and the acquisition of syntactic--semantic overhypotheses. arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04988.
Linzen, T., & Oseki, Y. (2018). The reliability of acceptability judgments across languages. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 1-25.
White, A. S., Hacquard, V., & Lidz, J. (2018). Semantic information and the syntax of propositional attitude verbs. Cognitive Science, 42(2), 416-456.