Schedule

Time and Place

Outline

#1: February 10th
Introduction: Linguistics & Psycholinguistics
Reading: Bever 1988, Phillips 1996 ch.1, 5
#2: February 17th
Constituency and structure building
Reading: Chomsky 1994, Phillips 1998 (or 1996, Ch.2)
#3: February 24th
Flexible constituency
Reading: Steedman 1996, Steedman 1997, Pesetsky 1995, Brody 1994
#4: March 3rd
More on constituent structure
Reading: Johnson 1994, more tba.
#5: March 10th
Constituency in other languages
Reading: Koizumi 1995, others tba.
#6: March 17th
Incrementality and movement
Reading: Kempson & Gabbay 1997, Fox 1997
#7: March 24th
Incrementality: prosodic structure
Reading: Gee & Grosjean 1983, Steedman 1996, Phillips 1996, Ch. 4.5
#8: March 31st
Economy & Complexity in parsing
Reading: Gorrell 1995, de Vincenzi 1992, Epstein 1992

April 4th-12th: Spring Break

#9: April 14th
Sentence comprehension and transformations
Reading: Bever & McElree 1988, MacDonald 1989, Bever & Sanz 1997
#10: April 21st
Grammaticality judgments from parser
Reading: Berwick & Weinberg 1984, Pritchett 1991, Hawkins 1994, Schneider in prep. (if ready)
#11: April 28th
Incremental sentence production
Reading: Ferreira 1997, Bock & Levelt 1995, Kempen & Hoenkamp 1987
#12: May 5th
ERPs & predictibility
Reading: Kutas & van Petten 1995, Friederici 1995
#13: May 12th Aphasia: lack of central deficits; conduction aphasia
#14: May 19th
Comprehension/production parallels in Broca's aphasia
Reading: Grodzinsky 1990, Zurif 1995, Kolk 1995