Psych 156A/ Ling 150

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
4/1/14	Introduction to Language Acquisition (pdf) Podcasts (1) Linguistic productivity	Review questions available for intro & mechanisms HW1 available	Jackendoff 1994: 3-34 [Chapters 1, 2, 3] O'Grady 2005: 164-175, "How do they do it?" Video: The Linguistic Genius of Babies (up through 10:07 in particular) Video: Language & Thought, 10:34-11:38, 14:14-15:22 ~~~~
4/3/14	Mechanisms (pdf) Podcasts (1) Adult vs. child generalization (2) Marr's levels: Cash register (3) Marr's levels: PBJ sandwich (4) Computational modeling process		Descriptive & prescriptive grammar Aslin & Newport 2012: overview of statistical learning in children Jackendoff (1994): Ch.8 Marr (1982): Ch.1 (pp.24-29) CHILDES database ~~~~
4/8/14	Sounds I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Categorical perception: Identification task (2) Interpreting categorical perception from graphs: Cross-linguistic (3) Infant categorical perception (4) When sound change happens	Review questions available for sounds	IPA sound conversion chart Werker 1995: development of speech perception Swingley 2009 (sections 3 and 4a): sound discrimination Casserly & Pisoni 2010 (esp. speech perception overview) Praat speech analysis tool Video: testing infants, up through 2:04 Video: Head-turn technique, conditioned head-turn + general sound perception trajectory for infants Video: infant speech sound discrimination Werker & Tees 2002: perceptual reorganization Yoshida et al. 2010: infant speech discrimination ~~~~
4/10/14	Sounds II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Maintenance & loss theory example (2) Dutch and English data distributions, part 1 (3) Maye et al. 2008 expt (4) Dietrich et al. 2007 (5) Dutch and English data distributions, part 2 (6) Cues in the input		Dietrich, Swingley, & Werker 2007: distinctive phonetic features Maye et al. 2002: unimodal vs. bimodal distribution sensitivity in infants Maye et al. 2008: bimodal facilitation for infants 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 ~~~~
4/15/14	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) Familiar words + Thiessen & Yee 2010		Stager & Werker 1997: sounds of words are harder Yoshida et al. 2009: word-learning at 14 months Thiessen & Yee 2010: early word form representations ~~~~
4/17/14	Word Segmentation I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Transitional probability example (2) Saffran, Aslin, & Newport 1996 (3) Lexical stress cues for word segmentation	HW1 due HW2 available Review questions available for word segmentation	Saffran, Aslin, & Newport 1996: statistical learning in infants for word segmentation Sondregger 2008: overview of many word seg studies Swingley 2009 (section 3): word segmentation overview ~~~~
4/22/14	Word Segmentation II Guest lecture by Lawrence (pdf) Podcasts (1) Word segmentation performance metrics (2) Monosyllabic word sequences (3) Bayesian word segmentation		Gambell & Yang 2006: word segmentation modeling Phillips & Pearl 2012: word segmentation modeling ~~~~
4/24/14	Word Meaning I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Bayesian inference intro (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	Yu & Smith 2007: cross-situational learning in adults Smith & Yu 2008: cross-situational learning in infants Blog post: Against cross-situational learning ~~~~
4/29/14	Word Meaning II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Suspicious coincidences and Bayesian inference (2) Xu & Tenenbaum 2007 experiment (3) Gagliardi et al. 2012		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 ~~~~
5/1/14	Midterm Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams ~~~~
5/6/14	Midterm Exam Locations available: PCB 1100 & the computer lab in NS1 3116	Make sure to have your notes available during the exam.	~~~~
5/8/14	Grammatical Categorization I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Grammatical category precision & recall (2) Interpreting category precision & recall	HW2 due HW3 available Review questions available for grammatical categorization	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 ~~~~
5/13/14	Grammatical Categorization II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Expected productivity (2) Calculating observed overlap (3) Comparison with child data: nouns (4) Comparison with child data: verbs		Yang 2011: identifying knowledge of a grammatical category ~~~~
5/15/14	Poverty of the Stimulus I (pdf) Podcasts (1) The PoS problem: Generalization (2) The PoS problem: Example generalizations (3) The PoS problem: Link to prior knowledge	Review questions available for poverty of the stimulus	Crain & Thornton 2012: structure dependence, poverty of the stimulus arguments ~~~~
5/20/14	Poverty of the Stimulus II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Gerken 2006 (2) Subset Problem (3) Suspicious coincidences for the Subset Problem (4) Children and counterexamples		Gerken 2006: infants making generalizations Gerken 2010: infants making generalizations (heeding counterexamples) ~~~~
5/22/14	Poverty of the Stimulus III (pdf) Podcasts (1) LWF 2003: Anaphoric one experiment (2) Anaphoric one input & induction problem (3) PoS and knowledge kinds		Lidz, Waxman, & Freedman 2003: anaphoric one experimental Regier & Gahl 2004: anaphoric one computational Pearl & Lidz 2009: anaphoric one computational Pearl & Mis 2011: anaphoric one computational Pearl & Sprouse 2013: syntactic islands computational ~~~~
5/27/14	Introduction to Structure (pdf) Podcasts (1) Parameters (2) The value of parameters	HW3 due Review questions available for structure	Baker 2001: Ch.1, Ch.2: linguistic structure Computer abilities Video: Computer abilities Video: Computer abilities AI: Computer knowledge of common-sense information Navajo Code Talkers Video: Navajo code talkers ~~~~
5/29/14	Structure & Parameters (pdf) Podcasts (1) Statistical vs. linguistic parameters (2) Learning with parameters: details (3) Dewar & Xu 2010 (4) Interacting parameters		Pearl & Lidz 2013: Parameters (sections 1 & 2) Dewar & Xu 2010: Overhypotheses ~~~~
6/3/14	Learning Structure (pdf) Podcasts (1) Unambiguous data issues (2) Learning with parameterized grammars (3) Unambiguous data issues revisited		Pearl & Lidz 2013: Learning parameters (sections 3 & 4) Yang 2004: unambiguous data Yang 2011: learning as selection, learnability & development Crain & Thornton 2012: Questions (medial wh-questions) ~~~~
6/5/14	Final Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams
6/12/14	Final Exam 1:30pm-3:30pm Locations available: PCB 1100 or wherever you have reliable internet access	Make sure to have your notes available during the exam.

Psych 156A/ Ling 150: Schedule