Lisa S. Pearl - Teaching
University of California, Irvine

Teaching Philosophy

I'm a computational linguist and the computational mindset deals in the concrete, striving to find a way to quantify abstract notions. Writing an algorithm to capture the intuition behind a process, for example, often reveals unexpected consequences and assumptions that more informal thinking glosses over. In theoretical, psycholinguistic, or applied linguistics, a student comfortable with computational thought will be far better equipped to engage in the business of answer-seeking.

[extended version of my teaching philosophy is here]

Current Courses

PSYCH56L/LING51: Acquisition of Language, Fall, 2008, UC Irvine.
PSYCH215: Language Sciences (Acquisition), Fall, 2008, UC Irvine.

Previous Courses
(as Instructor)

PSYCH156A/LING150: Psychology of Language Learning, Spring, 2008, UC Irvine.
PSYCH245A: (with Professor Mark Steyvers) Computational Models of Language Learning, Spring 2008, UC Irvine.
PSYCH229: Language Acquisition, Winter 2008, UC Irvine.
LING240: Language and the Mind, Summer 2005, University of Maryland.
LING200: Introduction to Linguistics, Summer 2004, University of Maryland.

(as Teaching Assistant)

HONR218L: Language and the Mind, with Professor Colin Phillips, Spring 2007, University of Maryland.
HONR218L: Language and the Mind, Dr. Andrea Zukowski, Spring 2005, University of Maryland.
LING200: Introduction to Linguistics, Professor Stephen Crain, Fall 2004, University of Maryland.