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
3/29/16	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 Sedivy, pp.24-28: combining units Sedivy, pp.170-173: morphemes & morpheme processes ~~~~
3/31/16	Mechanisms (pdf) Podcasts (1) Adult vs. child generalization (2) Marr's levels: Cash register (3) Marr's levels: PBJ sandwich (4) What computational modeling can tell us (5) Computational modeling process		Descriptive & prescriptive grammar Lingspace: Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar, (youtube) Aslin & Newport 2012: overview of statistical learning in children Jackendoff (1994): Ch.8 Marr (1982): Ch.1 (pp.24-29) Sedivy, p.224: CHILDES database CHILDES database Pearl 2010: computational models of language acquisition ~~~~
4/5/16	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 (6) Infant categorical perception (7) When sound change happens	Review questions available for sounds + sounds of words	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 No categorical perception for pitch and intensity Sedivy, pp.124-126: voicing Sedivy, pp.126-130: phones & categorical perception 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 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: testing infants, up through 2:04 Video: Head-turn technique, 5:30-8:20 Video: infant speech sound discrimination Werker & Tees 2002: perceptual reorganization Yoshida et al. 2010: infant speech discrimination Curtin & Zamuner 2014: section on speech perception Distinct sounds for babies Infant Phonemic Discrimination DataBase ~~~~
4/7/16	Sounds II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Maintenance & loss theory example (2) Maintenance & loss vs. Functional reorganization (3) Dutch and English data distributions, part 1 (4) Maye et al. 2002 expt (5) Maye et al. 2008 expt (6) Switch task & Dietrich et al. 2007 (7) Dutch and English data distributions, part 2 (8) Cues in the input (9) Sounds in context: Feldman et al. 2013 expt		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 ~~~~
4/12/16	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 Yoshida et al. 2009: word-learning at 14 months Sedivy, p.164 (Box 5.1): Revisiting the Switch task (Fennell & Waxman 2010) Word positions in 7-month-olds and newborns Thiessen & Yee 2010: early word form representations ~~~~
4/14/16	Speech Segmentation I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Transitional probability definition (2) Transitional probability minimum (3) Transitional probability minima example (4) Saffran, Aslin, & Newport 1996 (5) Cues in combination: familiar words & isolated words (6) Vowel harmony as a cue (7) Lexical stress cues (8) Thiessen & Saffran 2007	HW1 due HW2 available Review questions available for speech segmentation	Sedivy, p.107: segmentation overview Segmentation examples Sedivy, pp.115-118: transitional probabilities + Saffran et al. 1006 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 ~~~~
4/19/16	Speech Segmentation II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Speech segmentation performance metrics (2) Monosyllabic word sequences (3) The Unique Stress Constraint (4) Bayesian speech segmentation		Gambell & Yang 2006: speech segmentation modeling CMU Pronouncing Dictionary Phillips & Pearl 2015: speech segmentation modeling ~~~~
4/21/16	Word Meaning I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Fast mapping overview (2) Bayesian inference intro (3) Bayesian inference for cross-situational learning (4) Smith & Yu (2008) expt (5) Why more is not always harder (6) Bayesian sequential updating	Review questions available for word meaning	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 ~~~~
4/26/16	Word Meaning II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Suspicious coincidences and Bayesian inference (2) Xu & Tenenbaum 2007 experiment (3) Gagliardi et al. 2012 (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 Jenkins et al. 2015: not-so-Bayesian word learning ~~~~
4/28/16	Midterm Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams ~~~~
5/3/16	Midterm Exam Locations: SSL 140 or wherever you have reliable internet access	Make sure to have your notes available during the exam.	~~~~
5/5/16	Pragmatics: Implicatures Guest lecture: K.J. Savinelli (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	HW2 due HW3 available Review questions available for pragmatics (implicatures)	Sedivy, pp.435-444: Pragmatics introduction Lingspace: Pragmatics (youtube): through 6:46 Lingspace: Implicatures (youtube): 0:36-3:08 Ozturk & Papafragou 2015: epistemic modals Stiller et al. 2015: generalized vs. particularized implicatures Brandone et al. 2015: generics ~~~~
5/10/16	Syntactic Categorization I Guest lecture: Galia Bar-Sever (pdf) Podcasts (1) Syntactic category precision & recall (2) Interpreting category precision & recall	Review questions available for syntactic categorization	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 ~~~~
5/12/16	Syntactic Categorization II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Expected productivity (2) Calculating observed overlap (3) Comparison with child data: nouns (4) Comparison with child data: verbs		Sedivy, pp.180-181: morpheme productivity Yang 2010: identifying knowledge of a syntactic category Yang 2011: identifying knowledge of a syntactic category ~~~~
5/17/16	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 (4) Crain & Nakayama 1987 (5) Nativist vs. Linguistic nativist	Review questions available for poverty of the stimulus	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 ~~~~
5/19/16	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) ~~~~
5/24/16	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 Pearl & Mis 2016: anaphoric one computational Regier & Gahl 2004: anaphoric one computational Pearl & Lidz 2009: anaphoric one computational Sedivy, pp.220-222: syntactic islands Pearl & Sprouse 2013, 2015: syntactic islands computational ~~~~
5/26/16	Structure I (pdf) Podcasts (1) World Atlas of Language Structures demo (2) Parameter combinations (3) The value of parameters (4) Statistical vs. linguistic parameters (5) Learning with parameters: details (6) Dewar & Xu 2010	HW3 due Review questions available for structure	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 Pearl & Lidz 2013: Parameters (sections 1 & 2) Dewar & Xu 2010: Overhypotheses ~~~~
5/31/16	Structure II (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) Yang 2004: unambiguous data Yang 2011: learning as selection, learnability & development Crain & Thornton 2012: Questions (medial wh-questions) ~~~~
6/2/16	Final Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams
6/7/16	Final Exam 4:00pm-6:00pm Locations available: SSL 140 or wherever you have reliable internet access	Make sure to have your notes available during the exam.

Psych 156A/ Ling 150: Schedule