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) |
| 9/25/08 | Introduction to Language Acquisition (pdf) |
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| 9/30/08 |
NO CLASS |
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| 10/2/08 | The Mechanism of Language Learning (pdf) |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Jackendoff (1994) vision comparison, Jackendoff (1994): Ch.8, * Marr (1982): Ch.1 (especially pp. 24-29) |
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| 10/7/08 | Methods of Language Acquisition Research (pdf) |
Pearl (submitted) | Emailed discussion questions due | |
| 10/9/08 |
NO CLASS |
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| 10/14/08 | Speech Perception I (pdf) |
* Dietrich, Swingley, & Werker (2007) | Emailed discussion questions due | Werker (1995) |
| 10/16/08 | Speech Perception II (pdf) |
* Vallabha et al. (2007) | Emailed discussion questions due | |
| 10/21/08 | Word Storage in the Lexicon (pdf) |
Stager & Werker (1997), Werker & Yeung (2005), Swingley & Aslin (2002), Swingley (2005) | ||
| 10/23/08 | Word Segmentation (pdf) |
* Gambell & Yang (2006) | Emailed discussion questions due |
Saffran, Aslin, & Newport (1996), * Goldwater et al. (2007) |
| 10/28/08 | Grammatical Categories I (pdf) |
* Gomez & Lakusta (2004) | Emailed discussion questions due | * Hudson Kam & Newport (2005) |
| 10/30/08 | Grammatical Categories II (pdf) |
* Mintz (2003) | Emailed discussion questions due | * Wang & Mintz (2008) |
| 11/4/08 | Morphology: Rules vs. Statistics (pdf) |
Pinker & Ullman vs. McClelland & Patterson (2002) | Emailed discussion questions due | Pinker 1995: Chapter 5 |
| 11/6/08 | Morphology: Rules vs. Statistics II (pdf) |
First reaction paper should be submitted to instructor by 11/7/08 | ||
| 11/11/08 |
NO CLASS |
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| 11/13/08 | Morphology: Learning Models (pdf) |
* Yang (2005) | Emailed discussion questions due | * Yang (2002), ch.3 |
| 11/18/08 | Learning Phrases (pdf) |
* Thompson & Newport (2007) |
Emailed discussion questions due |
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| 11/20/08 | Poverty of the Stimulus I (pdf) |
Final paper meeting with instructor completed by 11/21/08 |
Pinker (2004), * Gerken (2006) |
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| 11/25/08 | Poverty of the Stimulus II (pdf) |
Seidenberg (1997) |
Emailed discussion questions due, Final paper outline completed by 11:59pm 11/28/08 |
Marcus (2003), Ch.2 |
| 11/27/08 | NO CLASS - Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| 12/2/08 | Poverty of the Stimulus III: Against (pdf) |
* Pullum & Scholz (2002) |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Crain & Pietroski (2002), Foraker et al. (2007), Pearl & Lidz (submitted) |
| 12/4/08 | Poverty of the Stimulus IV: For (pdf) |
* Legate & Yang (2002) |
Emailed discussion questions due, Second reaction paper should be submitted to instructor by 11:59pm 12/5/08 |
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| If we had an extra class, but alas we don't | Grammar & Complex Systems |
* Yang (2004) |
Baker (2001): Ch.1, Baker (2001): Ch.2 |
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| 12/11/08 | Final Paper |
Final paper emailed to instructor by 11:59pm |