Psych 215L: Schedule

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)
9/23/10
Introduction to
Language Acquisition
(pdf)

(1) Jackendoff 1994: 3-34 [Ch 1, 2, 3]

(2) O'Grady 2005: 164-175

(3) Goodluck 2010 - nativist perspective on language acquisition

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9/28/10
The Mechanism of Language Learning + Some Methods
(pdf)

(1) Marr (1982): Ch.1 (only pp. 24-29 [pp.12-14 of pdf])

(2) Pearl (2010)

 Emailed discussion questions due (1) * Kidd et al. (2010): infant looking time preferences

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9/30/10
More Methods + Current Controversies
(pdf) 		(1) Pearl & Goldwater (2010 ms) Emailed discussion questions due (1) Perfors et al. (2010 ms): Bayesian tutorial

(2) Kemp, Perfors, & Tenenbaum (2007): hierachical Bayesian overview

(3) Newport (2010): current controversies

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10/5/10 Speech Perception I
(pdf)

(1) * Dietrich, Swingley, & Werker (2007)

 Emailed discussion questions due (1) Werker (1995)

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10/7/10 Speech Perception II
(pdf)

(1) * Vallabha et al. (2007)

 Emailed discussion questions due ~~~
10/12/10 Speech Perception III
(pdf) 		(1) * Feldman, Griffiths, & Morgan (2009) Emailed discussion questions due (1) * Dillon et al. (2010 ms): learning categories

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10/14/10
Word Segmentation I: Boundaries
(pdf) 		(1) * Gambell & Yang (2006) Emailed discussion questions due

(1) Saffran, Aslin, & Newport (1996): infant probability

(2) Gomez & Gerken (2000): artificial language expts

(3) Finn & Hudson Kam (2008): issues with adults in artificial language expts

(4) Onnis et al. (2005): issues with adults in artificial language expts

(5) * Johnson & Tyler (2010): issues with infant sensitivity to trans prob

(6) * Swingley (2005): word seg model using mutual information over syllables

(7) * Blanchard et al. (2010): cog plausible inference with phonotactic constraints

(8) * Goldwater et al. (2009): ideal learner

(9) * Johnson & Goldwater (2009): ideal learner

(10) * Willits et al. (2009): morpheme tracking

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10/19/10
Word Segmentation II: Lexicon
(pdf) 		(1) * Pearl, Goldwater, & Steyvers (2010 ms) Emailed discussion questions due (1) Pearl, Goldwater, & Steyvers (2010): shorter version of 2010 ms

(2) Fleck (2008)

(3) Hewlett & Cohen (2009)

(4) * Frank et al. (2010 forthcoming) Cognition: Bayesian model matching human word seg performance

(5) * Frank et al. (2010) CogSci Conf: experimental support that learners are looking for lexicons

(6) * Jones et al. (2010): word seg + word meaning

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10/21/10
Word-Meaning Mapping I
(pdf) 		(1) * Xu & Tenenbaum (2007)
 Emailed discussion questions due ~~~
10/26/10
Word-Meaning Mapping II
(pdf)
(1) * Frank, Goodman, & Tenenbaum (2009)

 Emailed discussion questions due (1) * Yu & Smith (2007): adult cross-situational

(2) * Smith & Yu (2008): infant cross-situational

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10/28/10
Grammatical Categories
(pdf) 		(1) * Mintz (2003) Emailed discussion questions due,
First reaction paper should be submitted to instructor by 11:59pm 10/28/10 		(1) * Wang & Mintz (2008): online learning of FFs

(2) * Chemla et al. (2009)

(3) * Liebbrandt & Powers (2010)

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11/2/10 Poverty of the Stimulus I
(pdf) 		(1) Pinker (2004)

(2) * Gerken (2006)

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11/4/10 Poverty of the Stimulus II: Against
(pdf) 		(1) * Pullum & Scholz (2002) Emailed discussion questions due (1) Crain & Pietroski (2002)

(2) Valian (2009): Ch.2

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11/9/10 Poverty of the Stimulus III: For
(pdf) 		(1) * Legate & Yang (2002) Emailed discussion questions due (1) * Reali & Christiansen (2005)

(2) * Kam et al. (2008)

(3) * Hsu & Chater (2010): another way to quantify the learnability of a particular phenomenon

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11/11/10
Veteran's Day Observed - NO CLASS
11/16/10
PoS + Syntax I: Structure Dependence
(pdf) 		(1) * Perfors, Tenenbaum, & Regier (2006)

 Emailed discussion questions due (1) * Perfors, Tenenbaum, & Regier (2010 ms): longer version of 2006 paper

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11/18/10
PoS + Syntax II: Anaphoric One
(pdf) 		(1) * Pearl & Lidz (2009) Emailed discussion questions due
(1) * Regier & Gahl (2004)

(2) * Foraker et al. (2009)

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11/23/10
Complex Systems I
(pdf) 		Final paper meeting with instructor completed by 11/23/10 (1) Pearl & Lidz (2010 ms): intro to parameters (particularly sections 1 & 2)

(2) Lasnik & Lohndal (2010): current implementations of principles & parameters

(3) Lightfoot (2010): learning about parameters from language change

(4) O'Grady (2005) pp.120-142: Some difficult syntactic phenomena

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11/25/10

NO CLASS - Happy Thanksgiving!

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11/30/10
CLASS CANCELLED
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12/2/10
Complex Systems II
(pdf) 		(1) * Yang (2004) Emailed discussion questions due,
Second reaction paper should be submitted to instructor by 11:59pm 12/2/10 		~~~
If we had another class session...
Complex Systems III
 (1) * Pearl (2010 ms)

 (1) Pearl (2009): shorter version of 2010 ms.

(2) * Pearl (2008): unambiguous data

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If we had another class session beyond that...
Complex Systems IV
 (1) * Freudenthal, Pine, & Gobet (2010)

 (1) * Legate & Yang (2007): variational model of optional infinitives

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12/9/10 Final Paper
Final paper emailed to instructor by 11:59pm 12/9/10