Psych245A

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
4/1/08	Administrivia [Lisa & Mark]	Nothing - unless you already peeked at the web page
4/3/08	Biases and Probability [Lisa]	Jackendoff, 1994: [Chapters 1, 2, 3] Additional Reading: Seidenberg (1997) (first part)
4/8/08	Probability in Language [Kenny]	Yang (2008) Additional Reference Reading: Yang (2004)	Discussion questions
4/10/08	Inference [William]	Chater, Tenenbaum, & Yuille (2006) Chater & Manning (2006)	Discussion questions
4/15/08	Inference [Matt]	Kemp, Perfors, & Tenenbaum (2007) Reference Reading (Chinese Restaurant Problem): Navarro et al. (2006)	Discussion questions
4/17/08	Innateness & Specification [Kenny]	Elman (1999)	Discussion questions
4/22/08	Poverty of the Stimulus & Formal Learnability [Erin]	Johnson (2004)	Discussion questions
4/24/08	Poverty of the Stimulus & Formal Learnability [Ray]	Chater & Vitanyi (2006) (Lisa's recommendation: focus on sections 1-2, and particularly on 6-8)	Discussion questions
4/29/08	Linguistic Case Study: Syntax Learning [Lisa]	Pullum & Scholz (2002) Reference Readings (Anaphoric One) - first parts: Foraker et al. (2007), Pearl & Lidz (submitted)	Discussion questions
5/1/08	Linguistic Case Study: Syntax Learning [Pernille]	Legate & Yang (2002) Additional reading - reply to P&S (2002) (not required): Crain & Pietroski (2002)	Discussion questions
5/6/08	Linguistic Case Study: Syntax Learning Models [Matt & Ray]	Reali & Christiansen (2005) Kam et al. (2005)	Discussion questions
5/8/08	Linguistic Case Study: Syntax Learning Models [William]	Perfors, Tenenbaum, & Regier (2006) Extended Version (good for background): Perfors, Tenenbaum, & Regier (under review)	Discussion questions
5/13/08	Linguistic Case Study: Word Segmentation Models [Erin]	Gambell & Yang (2006)	Discussion questions
5/15/08	Linguistic Case Study: Word Segmentation Models [Erin]	Goldwater, Griffiths, and Johnson (2007)	Discussion questions
5/20/08	Word-Concept Mapping Models [Ray]	Yu, Ballard, & Aslin (2005)	Discussion questions
5/22/08	Word-Concept Mapping Models [Mark]	Yu & Smith (2007)	Discussion questions Topic for final paper should be chosen & meeting with instructor completed
5/27/08	Word-Concept Mapping Models [Pernille]	Xu & Tenenbaum (2007)	Discussion questions
5/29/08	Word-Concept Mapping Models [Matt]	Frank, Goodman, & Tenenbaum (under review)	Discussion questions Outline for final paper due by 11:59pm 5/30/08
6/3/08	Concepts and Semantic Representation [William]	Landauer & Dumais (1997)	Discussion questions
6/5/08	Concepts and Semantic Representation [Kenny & Pernille]	Steyvers & Griffiths (2007) Griffiths, Steyvers, Tenenbaum (2007), pp.229-237	Discussion questions
6/12/08	Final paper due		Final paper submitted by 4pm 6/12/08

Psych 245A: Schedule