Ling 151/Psych 156A

This is our wonderfully ambitious schedule. We'll attempt to keep with it, but it is subject to modification.

Date	Topic	Notices & Assignments	Reference Material
1/8/18	Intro I (pdf)	Review questions available for intro HW1 available	Video: The Linguistic Genius of Babies (up through 10:07 in particular) Jackendoff 1994: 3-34 [Chapters 1, 2, 3] O'Grady 2005: 164-175, "How do they do it?" Nativist perspective on language acquisition: (esp. 0:24-1:35) ~~~~
1/10/18	Intro II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Linguistic productivity (2) Prescriptive and descriptive grammar rules (3) Zipfian distributions in language (4) Adult vs. child generalization (5) Acquisition framework		Sedivy, pp.24-28: combining units Sedivy, pp.170-173: morphemes & morpheme processes Descriptive & prescriptive grammar Lingspace: Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar (youtube) Prescriptive writing rules Lingspace: derivational and inflectional morphology (youtube) Lingspace: Compounds Aslin & Newport 2012: overview of statistical learning in children Jackendoff (1994): Ch.8 Aslin 2017: Statistical learning overview Pearl 2017: Components of the acquisition process ~~~~
1/12/18	Intro III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Models for making theories explicit (2) Model interpretation for theories (3) Marr's levels: Cash register (4) Marr's levels: PBJ sandwich		Pearl 2010: computational models of language acquisition Pearl 2017: Components of the acquisition process Marr (1982): Ch.1 (pp.24-29) Sedivy, p.224: CHILDES database CHILDES database ~~~~
1/15/18	NO CLASS	Happy Martin Luther King Day!	~~~~
1/17/18	Sounds I (pdf) Podcasts (1) World Phonotactics Database Demo (2) Categorical perception: English VOT (3) Categorical perception: Identification task (4) Categorical perception: Discrimination task (5) Interpreting categorical perception from graphs: Cross-linguistic	Review questions available for sounds + sounds of words HW1 due HW2 available	Lingspace: Resonance and formants (youtube) IPA sound conversion chart Distinctive sounds for some adults Lingspace: Phonemes & allophones (youtube) - especially 1:17-5:07, 5:39-6:59 World phonotactics database Language pronunciation database No categorical perception for pitch and intensity Sedivy, pp.124-126: voicing Sedivy, pp.126-130: phones & categorical perception Casserly & Pisoni 2010 (esp. speech perception overview) Praat speech analysis tool ~~~~
1/19/18	Sounds II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Infant categorical perception (2) When sound change happens (3) Maintenance & loss theory (4) Maintenance & loss vs. Functional reorganization		Distinct sounds for babies Early non-speech sound categorization Werker 1995: development of speech perception Swingley 2009 (sections 3 and 4a): sound discrimination Lingspace: Infant speech perception (youtube): intro-3:34 = HAS procedure, 3:34-5:48: Head-Turn Preference Sedivy, p.132: HAS procedure, Head-Turn Preference procedure Video: infant speech sound discrimination Video: testing infants, up through 2:04 Video: Head-turn technique, 5:30-8:20 Werker & Tees 2002: perceptual reorganization Infant Phonemic Discrimination DataBase ~~~~
1/22/18	Sounds III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Dutch and English data distributions, part 1 (2) Maye et al. 2002 expt (3) Maye et al. 2008 expt (4) Switch task & Dietrich et al. 2007 (5) Dutch and English data distributions, part 2 (6) Cues in the input (7) Sounds in context: Feldman et al. 2013 expt		Curtin & Zamuner 2014: section on speech perception Maye et al. 2002: unimodal vs. bimodal distribution sensitivity in infants Maye et al. 2008: bimodal facilitation for infants Dietrich, Swingley, & Werker 2007: distinctive phonetic features Sedivy, pp.148-151: Switch task & fuzzy word representations Adriaans & Swingley 2012: input filtering to identify phonetic categories Feldman et al. 2009, Feldman et al. 2013a: learning sounds and words simultaneously Feldman et al. 2013b: word-level context in 8-month-olds and adults Antetomaso et al. 2017: computational models of learning sounds and words simultaneously ~~~~
1/24/18	Sounds of Words (pdf) Podcasts (1) Stager & Werker 1997 (2) Werker et al. 2002 (3) Explaining Stager & Werker: Vocab size (4) Explaining Stager & Werker 1997: Task difficulty (5) Task difficulty: Fennell & Waxman 2010 (6) Familiar words (7) Word position matters (8) Thiessen & Yee 2010		Curtin & Zamuner 2014: sections on word recognition & learning new words Sedivy, pp.147-148: attaching word form to word meaning Sedivy, pp.148-151: Switch task & fuzzy word representations Stager & Werker 1997: sounds of words are harder Curtin & Zamuner 2014: sections on neighborhood densities Sedivy, p.164 (Box 5.1): Revisiting the Switch task (Fennell & Waxman 2010) Yoshida et al. 2009: word-learning at 14 months Yoshida et al. 2010: 10-month-old speech discrimination Benefit of word repetition for vocab development Word positions in 7-month-olds and newborns Thiessen & Yee 2010: early word form representations ~~~~
1/26/18	Speech Segmentation I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Transitional probability definition & minimum strategy (2) Saffran, Aslin, & Newport 1996 (3) Cues in combination: familiar words & isolated words (4) Vowel harmony as a cue (5) Lexical stress cues (6) Thiessen & Saffran 2007	Review questions available for speech segmentation HW2 due HW3 available	Sedivy, p.107: segmentation overview He & Arunchalam 2017: "finding the words" subsection Segmentation examples Sedivy, pp.115-118: transitional probabilities + Saffran et al. 1996 Saffran, Aslin, & Newport 1996: statistical learning in infants for speech segmentation Interactive demo with Saffran et al. stimuli Sondregger 2008: overview of many speech seg studies Sedivy, pp.110-112: using familiar words to segment Sedivy, p.113-115: using stress patterns to segment Swingley 2009 (section 3): speech segmentation overview ~~~~
1/29/18	Speech Segmentation II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Speech segmentation performance metrics (2) Monosyllabic word sequences (3) The Unique Stress Constraint with TrProb (4) Bayesian speech segmentation (5) Useful units in speech segmentation		Categorization precision & recall visualization Gambell & Yang 2006: speech segmentation modeling CMU Pronouncing Dictionary Phillips & Pearl 2015: speech segmentation modeling ~~~~
1/31/18	Midterm Exam 1 Review	HW3 due Come with questions to class	~~~~
2/2/18	Midterm Exam 1 Locations: SSL 270 or wherever you have reliable internet access and can log into Canvas EEE	Make sure to have your notes available during the exam.	~~~~
2/5/18	Word Meaning I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Fast mapping overview (2) Bayesian inference for cross-situational learning (3) Smith & Yu (2008) expt (4) Why more is not always harder (5) Bayesian sequential updating	Review questions available for word meaning HW4 available	Samuelson & McMurray 2017: word learning Sedivy, pp.145-147: The mapping problem Lingspace: The Mapping problem (youtube): 2:04-2:32 Yu & Smith 2007: cross-situational learning in adults Smith & Yu 2008: cross-situational learning in infants Blog post: Against cross-situational learning ~~~~
2/7/18	Word Meaning II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Suspicious coincidences and Bayesian inference (2) Xu & Tenenbaum 2007 experiment - suspicious coincidences (3) Xu & Tenenbaum 2007 data selection sensitivity (4) Jenkins et al. 2015		Sedivy, pp.154-158: Category levels Sedivy, pp.230-231: Bayesian inference for word learning Lingspace, word learning biases (youtube): 2:33-2:58 = lexical biases (whole-object), 2:58-3:55 = type assumption + expt, 3:56-4:14 = basic-level assumption Xu & Tenenbaum 2007a: Bayesian inference in word meaning learning Xu & Tenenbaum 2007b: children's sensitivity to where the input comes from Gagliardi et al. 2012: noun and adjective learning Frank et al. 2016: Wordbank Jenkins et al. 2015: not-so-Bayesian word learning ~~~~
2/9/18	Pragmatics I (Words) (pdf) Podcasts (1) Ozturk & Papafragou 2015, Expt 1 (2) Ozturk & Papafragou 2015, Expt 2 (3) Ozturk & Papafragou 2015, Expt 3 (4) Stiller et al. 2015 (5) Brandone et al. 2015		TED talk on pragmatics, especially 10:34-11:38, 14:14-15:22 Sedivy, pp.435-444: Pragmatics introduction Lingspace: Pragmatics (youtube): through 6:46 Lingspace: Implicatures (youtube): 0:36-3:08 Snedeker 2015 talk on scalar implicatures Ozturk & Papafragou 2015: epistemic modals Stiller et al. 2015: generalized vs. particularized implicatures Brandone et al. 2015: generics ~~~~
2/12/18	Syntactic categories I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Syntactic category precision & recall (2) Interpreting category precision & recall (3) Getting better recall with FFs (4) Wang & Mintz (2008) model	Review questions available for syntactic categorization HW4 due HW5 available	Sedivy, pp.200-206: syntactic categories, semantic bootstrapping, distributional evidence Mintz 2003: frequent frames Mintz 2006: frequent frames in young children Chemla et al. 2009: frequent frames cross-linguistically & why they work Wang & Mintz 2008: dynamic frequent frames Bar-Sever & Pearl 2016: frequent frames in ASL ~~~~
2/14/18	Syntactic categories II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Representation options (2) Productivity and Zipfian distributions (3) Calculating observed overlap (4) Calculating expected overlap & comparing		Sedivy, pp.180-181: morpheme productivity Zipf's law (youtube) Yang 2010: identifying knowledge of a syntactic category Yang 2011: identifying knowledge of a syntactic category ~~~~
2/16/18	Syntax I (pdf) Podcasts (1) English anaphoric one (2) LWF 2003: Anaphoric one experiment (3) Anaphoric one input: ambiguous and unambiguous (4) Interpreting model output	Review questions available for syntax and sentences HW5 due HW6 available	Lingspace: Pronouns (youtube) Lidz, Waxman, & Freedman 2003: anaphoric one experimental Pearl & Mis 2016: anaphoric one computational Regier & Gahl 2004: anaphoric one computational Pearl & Lidz 2009: anaphoric one computational Pearl 2017 chapter: section 3.2.4 ~~~~
2/19/18	NO CLASS	Happy President's Day!	~~~~
2/21/18	Syntax II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Acceptability judgment stimuli (2) Superadditivity (3) Wh-dependency induction problem (4) Container nodes (5) Subjacency-ish strategy		Sedivy, pp.220-222: syntactic islands Lingspace: Syntactic islands (youtube) Pearl & Sprouse 2013, 2015: syntactic islands computational Pearl 2017 chapter: section 3.2.3 ~~~~
2/23/18	Pragmatics II (Sentences) (pdf) Podcasts (1) Quantifier scope (2) Quantifier scope experiments: every-not (3) Rational Speech Act framework (4) Savinelli et al. 2017 results (5) Musolino & Lidz 2003: Adults with two-not (6) Savinelli et al. 2018 results		Lingspace: quantifiers & scope (youtube): 0:39 - 5:24 Lingspace: ambiguities (youtube): 7:53-8:50 Savinelli et al. 2017: every-not quantifier scope Savinelli et al. 2018: two-not quantifier scope Extra Lingspace: speech acts (youtube) Lingspace: Relevance theory Lingspace: Common ground ~~~~
2/26/18	Midtern Exam 2 Review	HW6 due Come with questions to class	~~~~
2/28/18	Midterm Exam 2 Locations: SSL 270 or wherever you have reliable internet access and can log into Canvas EEE	Make sure to have your notes available during the exam	~~~~
3/2/18	Poverty of the Stimulus I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Evidence types (2) How poverty of the stimulus indicates prior knowledge (3) Nativists vs. linguistic nativists	Review questions available for poverty of the stimulus HW7 available	Lingspace: linguistic evidence (youtube): 0:35-1:33 Pearl & Mis 2016: section 2 Lasnik & Lidz 2016: 10.1, 10.2, 10.4, 10.6 Sedivy, pp.217-220: structure dependence in yes/no questions Sedivy, pp.222-223: poverty of the stimulus Sedivy, pp.224-225: testing poverty of the stimulus Crain & Thornton 2012: structure dependence, poverty of the stimulus arguments Lingspace: grammatical conservatism< (youtube): 1:40-2:43, 2:44-3:54 Han et al. 2016: another induction problem example ~~~~
3/5/18	Poverty of the Stimulus II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Gerken 2006 + Bayesian inference (2) Subset Problem (3) Counterexamples and Gerken 2010		Gerken 2006: infants making generalizations Gerken 2010: infants making generalizations (heeding counterexamples) Gerken et al. 2015: infants learning from a single input example when it's surprising Gerken & Knight 2015: infant generalizations from minimal input Gerken & Quam 2017: Spurious infant generalizations ~~~~
3/7/18	Structure I (pdf) Podcasts (1) World Atlas of Language Structures demo (2) Linguistic parameters	Review questions available for structure HW7 due HW8 available	Baker 2001: Ch.1, Ch.2: linguistic structure Navajo Code Talkers Video: Navajo code talkers Sedivy, pp.470-475: language diversity Sedivy, pp.475-476: language universals Sedivy, pp.476-481: cognitive underpinnings of language universals World Atlas of Language Structure Sedivy, pp.223-224: principles and parameters Lingspace: expletives & null subject parameter (youtube): 2:38-3:06 ~~~~
3/9/18	Structure II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Statistical vs. linguistic parameters (2) Learning with parameters: Details (3) Overhypotheses (4) Dewar & Xu 2010 (5) Overhypotheses and structure-dependence: Perfors et al. 2011		Kemp et al. 2007: overhypotheses Perfors et al. 2010: overhypotheses in language modeling Dewar & Xu 2010: overhypotheses ~~~~
3/12/18	Structure III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Interacting parameters 1 (2) Interacting parameters 2 (3) Learning with parameterized grammars (4) Unambiguous data issues: A solution		Pearl & Lidz 2013: Parameters (sections 1 & 2), Learning with parameters (sections 3 & 4) Pearl 2017 chapter: section 3.1.2 Yang 2004: unambiguous data Yang 2011: learning as selection, learnability & development Crain & Thornton 2012: Questions (medial wh-questions) ~~~~
3/14/18	Structure IV (pdf) Podcasts (1) English metrical phonology is hard (2) Rational learning from acquisitional intake (3) Productive data filter & the Tolerance Principle (4) Using the Tolerance Principle		Lingspace: Stress & metrical feet: 2:03-2:40, 2:40-3:00, 5:20-6:04 Lingspace: Optimality theory: 1:29-2:40 Pearl 2017: metrical phonology modeling Pearl et al. 2017: metrical phonology modeling
3/16/18	Final Exam Review	HW8 due Come with questions to class	~~~~
3/23/18	Final Exam 1:30pm-3:30pm Locations available: SSL 270 or wherever you have reliable internet access to log onto canvas EEE	Make sure to have your notes available during the exam.

Ling 151/Psych 156A: Schedule