| Date |
Topic |
Readings
(to be read by this class) |
Notices &
Assignments |
Reference Material (not required reading) |
| 3/30/10 |
Introduction to
Language Acquisition
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
|
Jackendoff 1994: 3-34 [Chapters 1,
2,
3]
|
| 4/1/10 |
Arguments & Mechanisms
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Review questions available for introduction, arguments, and mechanisms
|
Jackendoff (1994): Ch.8
Marr (1982): Ch.1 (pp.24-29)
|
| 4/6/10 |
Sounds
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Werker (1995)
|
IPA sound conversion chart available
|
Werker & Tees (2002)
|
| 4/8/10 |
Sounds of Words
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Stager & Werker (1997)
|
Review questions available for sounds and sounds of words
|
Dietrich, Swingley, & Werker (2007),
(pdf-material skipped),
Yoshida et al. (2009)
|
| 4/13/10 |
Word Segmentation
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Saffran, Aslin, & Newport (1996)
|
HW1 due
|
|
| 4/15/10 |
Word Segmentation II
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Review questions available for word segmentation
|
Gambell & Yang (2006),
Pearl, Goldwater, & Steyvers (2010)
|
| 4/20/10 |
Categorization
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Review questions available for categorization
|
Mintz (2003),
Wang & Mintz (2008)
|
| 4/22/10 |
Midterm Review
|
|
Bring questions and your notes to class
|
|
| 4/27/10 |
MIDTERM
|
|
|
|
| 4/29/10 |
NO CLASS
|
|
|
|
| 5/4/10 |
Morphology I
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Pinker (1995)
|
|
Pinker & Ullman vs. McClelland & Patterson (2002)
|
| 5/6/10 |
Morphology II
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Review questions for morphology available
|
Yang (2002): Ch.3,
Yang (2005)
|
| 5/11/10 |
Phrases
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Review questions for phrases available
HW2 due
|
Thompson & Newport (2007)
|
| 5/13/10 |
Poverty of the Stimulus I
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
|
|
| 5/18/10 |
Poverty of the Stimulus II
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Review questions available for poverty of the stimulus
|
Gerken (2006)
|
| 5/20/10 |
Learning Biases
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Pena et al. (2002)
|
Review questions available for learning biases
|
Newport & Aslin (2004)
|
| 5/25/10 |
Introduction to
Language Structure
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Baker (2001): Ch.1,
Baker (2001): Ch.2
|
HW3 due
|
|
| 5/27/10 |
Structure & Parameters
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
|
Pearl (2008)
|
| 6/1/10 |
Learning Structure
(ppt)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Review questions available for structure
|
Yang (2004)
|
| 6/3/10 |
Final Review
|
|
Bring questions and your notes to class
|
|
| 6/8/10 |
Final Exam/Final Paper due, 4 - 6pm
|
|
|
|