Our awesome selection of readings is now available for the winter 2012 quarter.
You can see the schedule & readings from previous years below:
2010-2011
Spring 2012
| Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
| Apr 18 | UG & structure dependence | Perfors et al. (2011) | Berwick et al. (2011) |
| May 2 | UG & structure dependence | Bouchard (2012) |
Perfors et al. (2011) Berwick et al. (2011) |
| May 16 |
UG & syntax acquisition | Crain & Thornton (2012) | Crain et al. (2006) |
| May 30 | Language change | Sondregger & Niyogi (2010) | Niyogi & Berwick (1996) |
Winter 2012
| Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
| Jan 23 | Word segmentation | Daland & Pierrehumbert (2011) | |
| Feb 6 | Structure induction | Waterfall et al. (2010) | |
| Feb 27 | The units of linguistic productivity | Yang (2010) | Yang (2011) |
| Mar 12 |
Morphological knowledge | O'Donnell et al (2011) | O'Donnell et al. (2009) |
Fall 2011
| Date | Topic | Readings | Reference Material |
| Oct 3 | Bayesian reasoning in linguistics | Dunbar et al (2010) |
Feldman et al. (2009), Dillon et al. (2011) |
| Oct 17 | Phonetics & phonology | Dillon et al. (2011) |
Feldman et al. (2009), Dunbar et al (2010) |
| Nov 7 Later start time: 3:30pm |
Syntactic bootstrapping | Alishahi & Pyykkonen (2011) |
Alishahi & Stevenson (2008), Fazly et al. (2010) |
| Nov 21 | Learning complex syntactic variation |
Mitchener & Becker (2011) | Alishahi & Stevenson (2008) |