Psych229

This is our wonderfully ambitious schedule. We'll attempt to keep with it, but it is subject to change.

Date	Material	Readings (to be read by this class)	Notices & Assignments Due
1/8/08	Introduction to Language Acquisition	Nothing - unless you already peeked at the web page
1/10/08	Introduction to Language Acquisition Continued	Jackendoff, 1994: 101-111 * Marr, 1982: Chapter 1 Recommended Jackendoff, 1994: 3-34 [Chapters 1, 2, 3], 171-183 Baker, 2001: 1-18	Discussion questions
1/15/08	The Language Learning Mechanism	Seidenberg, MacDonald, & Saffran, 2002 Marcus & Berent vs. Seidenberg, MacDonald, & Saffran, 2003 Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996 Note: The above three articles are all very short Bonus (not required, but good reference) Pena et al. (2002) Marcus et al. (1999)	Discussion questions
1/17/08	Rules & Statistics	* Gambell & Yang, 2006 Bonus (Not required, but interesting computationally) * Swingley, 2005, Cognitive Psychology	Discussion questions
1/22/08	Statistics & Word Segmentation	Bonus (Not required, but interesting computationally) * Goldwater et al. 2007
1/24/08	Word Categorization & Computational Modeling	* Gomez & Lakusta, 2004	Discussion questions
1/29/08	Word Categories	* Mintz, 2003	Discussion questions
1/31/08	Word Category Models & Speech Perception	Gerken & Aslin, 2005	Discussion questions
2/5/08	Speech Perception Continued	* Werker, 1995	Discussion questions
2/7/08	Speech Perception Continued	* Werker & Tees, 2002 * Dietrich, Swingley & Werker, 2007	1 reaction paper should be in by the end of this week
2/12/08	Speech Perception Models	* Vallabha et al, 2007	Discussion questions Topic for final paper should be chosen & meeting with instructor completed
2/14/08	Word Forms	* Werker & Yeung, 2005 Stager & Werker, 1997 Swingley & Aslin, 2002 Don't have to read, but we will cover the material in lecture notes * Swingley, 2005, Developmental Science	Discussion questions
2/19/08	Morphology	Pinker, 1995: Chapter 5 Note: The following articles are short and form a debate with each other Pinker & Ullman, 2002: 456-463 McClelland & Patterson, 2002: 464-465 McClelland & Patterson, 2002: 465-472 Pinker & Ullman, 2002: 472-474 Bonus: Not required, but interesting * Yang, 2002: 59-97	Discussion questions
2/21/08	Morphology & Connectionism	* Marcus, 2003: 1-35 [Chapters 1 and 2] Bonus (Not required, but interesting computationally) * Marcus, 2003: Chapter 3	Discussion questions
2/26/08	Morphology: Models	* Yang, 2005	Discussion questions
2/28/08	Morphology & Productivity: Models		Refresh your memory on Yang (2005)
3/4/08	Poverty of the Stimulus	Pinker, 2004 * Gerken, 2006 Bonus: Background reading (not required) Lightfoot, 1999: 60-66 MacWhinney, 2004 (target article for Pinker (2004))	Discussion questions
3/6/08	Poverty of the Stimulus	Seidenberg, 1997 * Legate & Yang, 2002 Bonus (target article for Legate & Yang (2002)): * Pullum & Scholz, 2002	Discussion questions Outline for final paper due by 11:59pm 3/7/08
3/11/08	Poverty of the Stimulus & Complex Systems	Baker, 2001: 1-18 * Yang, 2004 Bonus: more on syntactic variability Baker, 2001: 19-50	Discussion questions
3/13/08	Syntax Learning (lecture notes include material on Thompson & Newport, 2007)	Bonus: Not required, but about probabilistic learning of syntactic phrases * Thompson & Newport, 2007 Bonus: Not required, but interesting * Legate & Yang, 2007, * Yang, 2002: 1-13, 24-34, 35-58, * 101-124, * Gerken, 2004, * Dresher, 1999, * Pearl, 2008	Refresh your memory on Yang (2004) 3 reaction papers total should be in by the end of this week (11:59pm 3/14/08)
3/20/08	Final paper due		Final paper submitted by 4pm 3/20/08

Psych 229: Schedule