Our fabulous selection of readings is now available
for the spring 2018 quarter.
You can see the schedule & readings from previous years below:
[2016-2017]
[2015-2016]
[2014-2015]
[2013-2014]
[2012-2013]
[2011-2012]
[2010-2011]
Spring 2018
| Date | Topic | Readings | |
| May 1 | Language evolution via cultural transmission | Kirby 2017 | |
| May 3 | Language evolution via cultural transmission |
Adger 2017 + Bowling 2017 |
|
| May 15 |
Language evolution: Levels of explanation |
Johnson
2017 + Perfors 2017 |
Winter 2018
| Date | Topic | Readings | |
| Jan 29 at 11am | Info theory and adjective order | Dye al. 2017 | |
| Feb 12 at 11am | Long-distance dependencies |
Tanaka-Ishii
2017 |
|
| Mar 5 |
Scalar implicatures in ASD |
Hochstein
et al. 2017 |
|
| Mar 15 @ 2pm | Syntactic categorization |
Freudenthal
et al. 2016 |
Fall 2017
| Date | Topic | Readings | |
| Oct 17 in SBSG 2221 |
Pragmatics: Politeness | Yoon et al. 2017 | |
| Nov 7 in SBSG 2221 |
Referring expressions |
Orita
et al. 2015 |
|
| Nov 21 in SSPB 2296 |
Prosody & adverbs |
Stevens
et al. 2017 |
|
| Dec 5 in SSPB 2296 |
Input filtering |
Perkins
et al. 2017 |