This is our wonderfully ambitious schedule. We'll attempt to keep with it, but it is subject to modification.
Date | Topic | Readings (to be read by this class) |
Notices & Assignments |
Reference Material (not required reading) |
9/24/09 | Introduction to Language Acquisition (pdf) |
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9/29/09 | The Mechanism of Language Learning (pdf) |
* Marr (1982): Ch.1 (especially pp. 24-29) |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Jackendoff (1994) vision comparison, Jackendoff (1994): Ch.8 |
10/1/09 | Methods of Language Acquisition Research (pdf) |
Pearl (forthcoming) | Emailed discussion questions due | |
10/6/09 |
Speech Perception I (pdf) |
Emailed discussion questions due | Werker (1995) | |
10/8/09 |
Speech Perception II (pdf) |
Emailed discussion questions due | ||
10/13/09 |
Word Segmentation (pdf) |
* Gambell & Yang (2006) | Emailed discussion questions due |
Saffran, Aslin, & Newport (1996), Gomez & Gerken (2000), * Willits et al. (2009), * Johnson & Tyler (forthcoming), * Goldwater et al. (2007) |
10/15/09 | Grammatical Categories I (pdf) |
* Gomez & Lakusta (2004) | Emailed discussion questions due | |
10/20/09 | Grammatical Categories II (pdf) |
* Mintz (2003) | Emailed discussion questions due |
* Wang & Mintz (2008), * Chemla et al. (2009) |
10/22/09 | Morphology: Rules vs. Statistics (pdf) |
Pinker & Ullman vs. McClelland & Patterson (2002) | Emailed discussion questions due | Pinker 1995: Chapter 5 |
10/27/09 | Morphology: Rules vs. Statistics II (pdf) |
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10/29/09 | Morphology: Learning Models (pdf) |
* Yang (2005) |
Emailed discussion questions due, First reaction paper should be submitted to instructor by 11:59pm 10/29/09 |
* Yang (2002), ch.3, * Maslen et al. (2004) |
11/3/09 |
Learning Phrases I (pdf) |
* Thompson & Newport (2007) |
Emailed discussion questions due |
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11/5/09 | NO CLASS | |||
11/10/09 | Learning Phrases II (pdf) |
* Takahashi & Lidz (2009) | Emailed discussion questions due | |
11/12/09 | Poverty of the Stimulus I (pdf) |
Pinker (2004), * Gerken (2006) |
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11/17/09 | Poverty of the Stimulus II: Against (pdf) |
* Pullum & Scholz (2002) |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Crain & Pietroski (2002), Valian (2009): Ch.2 |
11/19/09 | Poverty of the Stimulus III: For (pdf) |
* Legate & Yang (2002) | Emailed discussion questions due |
* Kam et al. (2008) |
11/24/09 | Poverty of the Stimulus IV: Anaphoric One (pdf) |
* Pearl & Lidz (2009) |
Emailed discussion questions due, Final paper meeting with instructor completed by 11/24/09 |
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11/26/09 | NO CLASS - Happy Thanksgiving! |
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12/1/09 | Grammar & Complex Systems I (pdf) |
* Yang (2004) | Emailed discussion questions due |
Baker (2001): Ch.1, Baker (2001): Ch.2 |
12/3/09 | Grammar & Complex Systems II (pdf) |
* Pearl (forthcoming) |
Emailed discussion questions due, Second reaction paper should be submitted to instructor by 11:59pm 12/3/09 |
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12/10/09 |
Final Paper |
Final paper emailed to instructor by 11:59pm |