Our fabulous selection of readings is now available for the spring 2013 quarter.
You can see the schedule & readings from previous years below:
2011-2012
2010-2011

Spring 2013

Date Topic Readings Reference Material
Apr 16 Phonotactic learning Martin 2011
Apr 30 Word segmentation Lignos 2012
Lignos 2011
Chan & Lignos 2011
May 14
Regularization Perfors 2012 JML
Perfors 2012
Perfors 2011
May 28 Syntax + semantics Kwiatkowski et al. 2012

Winter 2013

Date Topic Readings Reference Material
Jan 14 Mathematical language learning Stabler 2009a
Jan 28 Language universals Stabler 2009b Heinz 2006
Feb 25
Statistical learning Thiessen & Pavlik in press Thiessen & Saffran 2007
Mar 11 Hierarchy in language use Frank et al. 2012 Chater & Christiansen 2010

Fall 2012

Date Topic Readings Reference Material
Oct 10 Learning sounds + words Feldman et al. 2012 Ms Feldman et al. 2011
Goldwater et al. 2009
Vallabha et al. 2007
Dillon et al. in press
Oct 24 Learning word meaning Gagliardi et al. 2012 Xu & Tenenbaum 2007
Goodman et al. 2008
Nov 14
Natural language learnability Hsu et al. 2011 Griffiths et al. 2010
Hsu & Chater 2010
Nov 28 Probabilistic learning Frank 2012 Ms