We will be using selections from the following coursebook as reference readings.

1. Pearl, L. (2011). The Acquisition of Language. USA: University Readers.
Available from University Readers, for Winter 2012, Psych56L | Ling51.

This coursebook consists of several selections from different textbooks:



In addition, we will also use the following articles as part of the reference readings:

Fisher, C., Gertner, Y., Scott, R. M., & Yuan, S. Syntactic bootstrapping. WIREs Cognitive Sciences, 1, 143-149. doi: 10.1002/wcs.17.

Wagner, L. (2010). The acquisition of semantics. WIREs Cognitive Sciences, 1, 519-526. doi: 10.1002/wcs.24.

Wolff, P. & Holmes, K. (2011). Linguistic Relativity. WIREs Cognitive Science, 2, 253-265. doi: 10.1002/wcs.104.