Our fabulous selection of readings is now available for the spring 2013 quarter.
You can see the schedule & readings from previous years below:
2011-2012
2010-2011
Spring 2013
Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
Apr 16 | Phonotactic learning | Martin 2011 | |
Apr 30 | Word segmentation |
Lignos 2012 |
Lignos 2011 Chan & Lignos 2011 |
May 14 |
Regularization |
Perfors 2012 JML |
Perfors 2012 Perfors 2011 |
May 28 | Syntax + semantics |
Kwiatkowski et al. 2012 |
Winter 2013
Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
Jan 14 | Mathematical language learning | Stabler 2009a | |
Jan 28 | Language universals | Stabler 2009b |
Heinz 2006 |
Feb 25 |
Statistical learning | Thiessen & Pavlik in press |
Thiessen & Saffran 2007 |
Mar 11 | Hierarchy in language use | Frank et al. 2012 |
Chater & Christiansen 2010 |
Fall 2012
Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
Oct 10 | Learning sounds + words | Feldman et al. 2012 Ms |
Feldman et al. 2011 Goldwater et al. 2009 Vallabha et al. 2007 Dillon et al. in press |
Oct 24 | Learning word meaning | Gagliardi et al. 2012 |
Xu & Tenenbaum 2007 Goodman et al. 2008 |
Nov 14 |
Natural language learnability | Hsu et al. 2011 |
Griffiths et al. 2010 Hsu & Chater 2010 |
Nov 28 | Probabilistic learning | Frank 2012 Ms |