Psych 56L/ Ling 51

This is our wonderfully ambitious schedule. We usually keep to it, but it is subject to modification.

Date	Topic	Notices & Assignments	Reference Material
10/2/14	Introduction to Language Acquisition (pdf) Podcasts (1) Grammar (2) Learning by correction (3) Motherese	Review questions available for intro HW1 available	The Linguistic Genius of Babies, up through 10:07 Language & Thought, 10:34-11:38, 14:14-15:22 Pearl: How Do They Do It?, pp.1-7 The quality of motherese Descriptive & prescriptive grammar
10/7/14	The Study of Language Acquisition (pdf) Podcasts (1) Domain-specific learning (2) Domain-general learning (3) Theoretical viewpoint comparison		A modern diary study (Deb Roy), up through 4:20 Pearl: Standardized Tests and Measures of Language Development, pp.9-10 Ambridge & Rowland 2013: spontaneous naturalistic speech, diary, & parental report data, elicited production, comprehension methods Sample nonsense speech used to test infant statistical learning abilities Pearl: The 'Nature' in Nature-Nurture: Something Must Be Innate, pp.11-14
10/9/14	Biological Bases of Language Acquisition I (pdf) Podcasts (1) APICS demo (2) Nicaraguan Sign Language: individual differences	Review questions available for biological bases of language acquisition	Pidgins Hawaiian pidgin example Creoles From pidgin to creole: Suriname Atlas of pidgin & creole structures: summary article Atlas of pidgin & creole structures Brentari & Coppola 2012: Sign language creation Nicaraguan sign language Language bioprogram hypothesis
10/14/14	Biological Bases of Language Acquisition II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Investigating the critical vs. sensitive period using second language learning (2) Critical vs. sensitive period (3) The "Less is More" hypothesis (4) Nim Chimpsky's combinations (5) Teaching bonobos (6) FLB vs. FLN		Pearl: The Critical Period Hypothesis, pp.15-34 Newport's "Less Is More" hypothesis Pearl: Teaching Words To Animals, pp.43-52 Alex the parrot Einstein the parrot Children vs. chimps Kanzi, ~2:35-7:42 Kanzi using lexigrams Kanzi understanding spoken langauge Kanzi understanding novel sentences
10/16/14	(finishing up the previous lecture, starting with "Teaching Bonobos") Biological Bases of Language Acquisition III (pdf) Podcasts (1) State diagrams (2) Bird communication vs. human language (3) Human language layers		vervet monkey calls: leopard, snake chimpanzees have intentional calls Honeybee waggle dance Dolphin language Dolphin whistle samples Could we speak the language of dolphins?: especially 6:07-6:50, 8:36-9:26, 10:26-10:52 Berwick et al. 2012: Birdsong syntax Human language vs. other animal comm systems (evolution): 1, 2
10/21/14	Phonological Development I (pdf)	HW1 due HW2 available Review questions available for phonological development	Diagram of vocal tract IPA sound conversion chart Relevant consonants chart Relevant vowels chart Interactive full vowel chart Interactive full consonant chart World Phonotactics database A podcast series on the sounds of English American English vowels Dialect variation in North American English Typing IPA characters (one resource) Typing IPA characters (another resource) IPA virtual keyboard
10/23/14	Phonological Development II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Categorical perception decision tasks (2) Infant categorical perception evidence (3) Categorical perception non-humans		Pearl: Prelinguistic Speech Sound Development, pp.53-57 Baby babbling "conversation" Brandt et al. 2012: music of speech Pearl: Categorical Perception, pp.59-61 Meltzoff et al. 2009: (section on lang learning) social component for adult sound learning Motherese Ambridge & Rowland 2013: Conditioned head-turn preference procedure Research of Janet Werker: especially 1:54-4:02 on conditioned head-turn preference procedure
10/28/14	Phonological Development III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Deletion processes (2) Substitution processes (3) Multiple process examples	Have IPA reference charts accessible during class	15-month-old pronunciation Child pronunciation: "popsicle" Time lapse of "water" pronunciation, ~4:20-5:40 Pearl: Making Adjustments, pp.63-68 Consonantal classes (interactive)
10/30/14	Midterm Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams
11/04/14	Midterm Exam Locations available: RH 104 & anywhere you have internet access	Make sure to have your coursebooks and notes available during the exam.
11/06/14	Lexical Development I (pdf) Guest lecture: K.J. Podcasts (1) Tense (2) Aspect	Review questions available for lexical development	The power of word meaning Pearl: Learning Words, pp.69-71 Wagner 2010: (tense & aspect)
11/11/14	*Happy Veterans Day!* (no class)
11/13/14	Lexical Development II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Noun learning (2) Manner of motion vs. Direction of motion verbs (3) Snedeker & Gleitman 2002: Cues to verb learning (4) Underextension & overextension errors (5) Identifying a word spurt		Pearl: Word Meaning, pp.73-75 Mobile App: What's that word? The changing form of referents (video) Human Simulation Paradigm reference: Gleitman et al. 2005 Pearl: Overextensions and Underextensions of First Words, pp.77-78 A humorous example of possible prelingual conceptual categories [Dr. Who] A humorous example of overextension Context of vocabulary development, ~5:45-11:00 Effects of input quantity
11/18/14	Lexical Development III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Fast mapping (2) Lexical biases in humans vs. collies (3) Lexical biases in young children		Pearl: Fast Mapping, pp.79-80 Fast mapping by Ricoh Fast mapping by Chaser Pearl: Lexical Constraints on Referent Mapping, p.81 Referential certainty and vocabulary growth Wagner 2010: (syntactic bootstrapping & argument structure) Fisher et al. 2010: syntactic bootstrapping
11/20/14	Development of Morphology & Syntax I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Morpheme types (2) Some syntactic rules & recursion (3) Buiding syntactic trees	HW2 due HW3 available Review questions available for development of morphology & syntax	Morphemes Syntax: Context-free grammars
11/25/14	Development of Morphology & Syntax II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Cross-linguistic morphological development (2) Sentence comprehension strategies (3) Zipfian distributions in language		Pearl: Morphological Development in Children Acquiring Languages Other Than English, pp.83-84 Children know more than they can say
11/27/14	*Happy Thanksgiving!* (no class)
12/02/14	Development of Complex Syntax (pdf) Podcasts (1) Silent things (2) Silent subjects and objects (3) Children interpreting pronouns (4) Quantifier scope (5) Children's quantifier interpretations (6) Quantifier spreading (7) The importance of context for interpreting quantifiers		Pearl: Syntactic Knowledge, pp.85-97 Ambridge & Rowland 2013: elicited production, imitation, syntactic priming, act-tasks, preferential looking, grammaticality judgments A poem showing pronoun reference issues, about a quarter of the way down the page Wagner 2010: (sections on quantification & scope)
12/04/14	Language & Cognition (pdf) Podcasts (1) Navigation experiment (2) Navigation: verbal and non-verbal shadowing (3) Sentential complements and order of acquisition (4) One idea for learning the connection between language & theory of mind (5) Indirect false belief tasks Extra Material (E1) Number: intro & Weber's Law (E2) Children's numerical cognition	Review questions available for language & cognition	Wolff & Holmes 2010: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, cognitive off-loading modern Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, especially 5:03-5:50 Linguistic relativity False belief task & theory of mind Carlson et al. 2013: Theory of mind Extra Material: Numerical cognition Lidz 2014, section 1.1: ANS's link to exact numbers and quantifiers Number learning in a non-industrialized society
12/09/14	Language Development in Special Populations (pdf) Guest lecture: Galia Podcasts (1) Pronoun reversal errors in ASL (2) Cochlear implants and language development (3) Williams Syndrome and the Developmental Arrest Hypothesis (4) Williams Syndrome vs. Down Syndrome	HW3 due Review questions available for language development in special populations	Pearl: Language in Special Populations, pp.99-122 Signed vs. spoken languages Lillo-Martin & Gajewski 2014: iconicity, use of space, simultaneity in signed languages Sign language examples ASL resources: school for the deaf, dictionaries, lessons & dictionary ASL signs differing by feature values aspect in ASL Williams syndrome video Landau & Ferrara 2013: Williams Syndrome
12/11/14	Final Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams
12/18/14	Final Exam 1:30pm-3:30pm Locations available: RH 104 & anywhere you have internet access	Make sure to have your coursebooks and notes available during the exam.

Psych 56L/ Ling 51: Schedule