We will be reading (or using as reference) numerous articles as well as excerpts from the following books:
Jackendoff, R. 1994. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. USA: Basic Books.
Marr, D. 1982. Vision. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, pp. 3-43.
O'Grady, W. 2005. How Children Learn Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Werker, J. 1995. Exploring Developmental Changes in Cross-language Speech Perception, Chapter 4 (pp.87-106) in Gleitman, L. & Liberman, M., Language. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.