Readings from previous years can be found below:
[2020-2021] [2019-2020] [2018-2019] [2017-2018] [2016-2017] [2015-2016]
[2014-2015] [2013-2014] [2012-2013] [2011-2012] [2010-2011]

Discussed Winter 2022

Hu, J., Levy, R., & Zaslavsky, N. 2021. Scalable pragmatic communication via self-supervision. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05799.

van der Slik, F., Schepens, J., Bongaerts, T., & van Hout, R. 2021. Critical Period Claim Revisited: Reanalysis of Hartshorne, Tenenbaum, and Pinker (2018) Suggests Steady Decline and Learner‐Type Differences. Language Learning.

Wilcox, E., Levy, R., & Futrell, R. 2021. Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006327.

Discussed Fall 2021

Bohn, M., Tessler, M. H., Merrick, M., & Frank, M. C. 2021. How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words. Nature human behaviour, 5(8), 1046-1054.

Harmon, Z., Barak, L., Shafto, P., Edwards, J., & Feldman, N. H. 2021. Making heads or tails of it: a competition–compensation account of morphological deficits in language impairment. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).

Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Wonnacott, E. 2010. Variability, negative evidence, and the acquisition of verb argument constructions. Journal of Child Language, 37(3), 607-642.

Tal, S., Grossman, E., & Arnon, I. 2021. Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow: implications for language learning. PsyArxiv.