| Date |
Topic |
Notices &
Assignments |
Reference Material
(* = required for this session) |
| 4/3/12 |
Introduction to
Language Acquisition
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Review questions available for introduction, arguments, and mechanisms
|
Jackendoff 1994: 3-34 [Chapters 1,
2,
3]
O'Grady 2005: 164-175, "How do they do it?"
The Linguistic Genius of Babies (up through 10:07 in particular)
~~~
|
| 4/5/12 |
Arguments & Mechanisms
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Descriptive & Prescriptive Grammar
Jackendoff (1994): Ch.8
Marr (1982): Ch.1 (pp.24-29)
CHILDES database
~~~
|
| 4/10/12 |
Sounds I
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
IPA sound conversion chart available
Review questions available for sounds and sounds of words
|
* Werker (1995)
Swingley (2009) (sections 3 and 4a)
Casserly & Pisoni (2010) (esp. speech perception overview)
Praat speech analysis tool
Infant speech sound discrimination
Testing infants (up to 2:04)
Head-turn preference procedure
Werker & Tees (2002)
Yoshida et al. (2010) (infant speech discrimination)
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|
| 4/12/12 |
Sounds II
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Dietrich, Swingley, & Werker (2007)
Maye et al. (2002) (infant statistical learning)
Feldman et al. (2009) (learning sounds and words simultaneously)
~~~
|
| 4/17/12 |
Sounds of Words
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
* Stager & Werker (1997)
Yoshida et al. (2009)
~~~
|
| 4/19/12 |
Word Segmentation I
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
HW1 due
Review questions available for word segmentation
|
* Saffran, Aslin, & Newport (1996)
Swingley (2009) (section 3)
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|
| 4/24/12 |
Word Segmentation II
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Gambell & Yang (2006)
Pearl, Goldwater, & Steyvers (2011)
~~~
|
| 4/26/12 |
Word Meaning I
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Review questions available for word meaning
|
Yu & Smith (2007)
Smith & Yu (2008)
~~~
|
| 5/1/12 |
Word Meaning II
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Xu & Tenenbaum (2007)
~~~
|
| 5/3/12 |
Midterm Exam Review
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Come with questions to class
|
QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE
More detailed guide to EEE online exams
~~~
|
| 5/8/12 |
Midterm Exam
Locations available: HH 178 and SBSG G241
|
Make sure to bring your notes with you
|
|
| 5/10/12 |
Grammatical Categories
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Review questions available for grammatical categorization
|
~~~
Mintz (2003)
Mintz (2006)
Wang & Mintz (2008)
~~~
|
| 5/15/12 |
Phrases
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
HW2 due
Review questions available for phrases
|
Thompson & Newport (2007)
Hudson Kam & Newport (2009)
~~~
|
| 5/17/12 |
Poverty of the Stimulus I
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Review questions available for poverty of the stimulus
|
~~~
|
| 5/22/12 |
Poverty of the Stimulus II
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
* Gerken (2006)
Gerken (2010)
~~~
|
| 5/24/12 |
Poverty of the Stimulus III
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Pearl & Mis (2011)
Lidz, Waxman, & Freedman (2003)
Regier & Gahl (2004)
Pearl & Lidz (2009)
Pearl & Sprouse (2012)
~~~
|
| 5/29/12 |
Introduction to
Language Structure
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
HW3 due
Review questions available for structure
|
* Baker (2001): Ch.1,
Ch.2
Computational language skills
Navajo Code Talkers
~~~
|
| 5/31/12 |
Structure & Parameters
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
Pearl & Lidz (2011)
* Dewar & Xu (2010)
~~~
|
| 6/5/12 |
Learning Structure
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
|
* Yang (2011) (learning as selection, learnability & development)
Yang (2004)
~~~
|
| 6/7/12 |
Final Review
(pptx)
(pdf-black & white)
|
Come with questions to class
|
QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE
More detailed guide to EEE online exams
~~~
|
| 6/14/12 |
Final Exam
1:30-3:30pm
Locations available: HH 178 and SBSG G241
|
Make sure to bring your notes with you
|
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