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) |
| 3/30/10 | [Lisa & Mark] Admin & Selection of Articles |
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| 4/1/10 | [Lisa] Introduction to Language Acquisition (pdf) |
Marr 1982: Ch.1 (especially pp. 24-29) |
Jackendoff 1994 [Chapters 1, 2, 3, 8] |
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| 4/6/10 | [Brent] Statistical Learning & Inference I |
McMurray & Hollich 2009, Samuelson 2009 response, Soderstrom et al. 2009 response | Emailed discussion questions due | |
| 4/8/10 |
[Sean] Statistical Learning & Inference II |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Navarro et al. 2006, Shi et al. (2010 in press) |
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| 4/13/10 |
[Ben] Formal Learnability |
Emailed discussion questions due | ||
| 4/15/10 |
[Collective] Phonetics & Phonology I |
Feldman, Griffiths, & Morgan 2009: Perceptual Magnet | Emailed discussion questions due | |
| 4/20/10 | [Sean] Phonetics & Phonology II |
Dillon & Idsardi 2009 Ms. | Emailed discussion questions due |
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| 4/22/10 | [Lisa] Word Segmentation I |
Pearl, Goldwater, & Steyvers 2010 | Emailed discussion questions due | Goldwater, Griffiths, & Johnson 2009 |
| 4/27/10 | [Brent] Word Segmentation II |
Christiansen et al. 2009 | Emailed discussion questions due | |
| 4/29/10 | NO CLASS |
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| 5/4/10 | [Ben] Word Segmentation III |
Feldman, Griffiths, & Morgan 2009: Lexicon | Emailed discussion questions due | |
| 5/6/10 | [Mark] Word-Meaning Mapping I |
Frank, Goodman, & Tenenbaum 2009 |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Xu & Tenenbaum 2007 |
| 5/11/10 | [Mark] Word-Meaning Mapping II |
Griffiths, Steyvers, & Tenenbaum 2007 |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Landauer & Dumais 1997, Steyvers & Griffiths 2007 |
| 5/13/10 | [Collective] Word-Meaning Mapping III |
Andrews & Vigliocco 2010 | Emailed discussion questions due |
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| 5/18/10 | [Brent] Grammatical Categorization |
Chemla et al. 2009 | Emailed discussion questions due | Mintz 2003 |
| 5/20/10 | [Ben] Syntax I: Root Infinitives |
Freudenthal et al. 2009 |
Emailed discussion questions due | |
| 5/25/10 |
NO CLASS |
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| 5/27/10 | [Lisa] Syntax II: Anaphoric One & Poverty of the Stimulus |
Pearl & Lidz 2009 |
Emailed discussion questions due |
Regier & Gahl 2004, Foraker et al. 2009 |
| 6/1/10 | [Sean] Syntax III: Structure Dependence and Poverty of the Stimulus |
Perfors, Tenenbaum, & Regier 2006 | Emailed discussion questions due |
Reali & Christiansen 2005, Kam et al. 2008, Perfors, Tenenbaum, & Regier Ms. |
| 6/3/10 | [Collective] Syntax IV: Implicit Negative Evidence and Poverty of the Stimulus |
Hsu & Griffiths 2009 |
Emailed discussion questions due |
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| If we had more time... | [Collective] Syntax V: Recursion |
Perfors et al. 2010 | Emailed discussion questions due | Udden et al. 2009 |