Schedule

Times & Places

Topics

Note: this schedule is tentative, and is likely to change. Updates will be marked on this page.

September

 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 1 2 3
4
Class 1: Introduction
Past tense I
Readings: Pinker 1995a, Plunkett 1995
5
8
9
Class 2 to be rescheduled
Past tense II
Reading: TBA
10
11
Class 3: Introduction
Past tense III: Brain
Readings: Jaeger et al. 1996, Penke et al. 1997, Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1997
12
15
16
Class 4: Acquisition
Foundations I: maturation
Reading: Gleitman & Newport 1995
17
18
Class 5: Acquisition
Foundations II: learnability
Readings: Pinker 1995b, Saffran et al. 1997
19
22
23
Class 6: Acquisition
Speech perception I
Reading: Werker 1995
24
25
Class 7: Acquisition
Speech perception II
Reading: Jusczyk 1997
26
29
30
Class 8: Acquisition
Word learning I
Reading: Gleitman 1990
     

October

 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
     1
2
Class 9: Acquisition
Word learning II
Readings: Pinker 1994, Naigles 1996
3
6
7
Class 10: Acquisition
Syntax I
Reading: Phillips 1995
8
9
Class 11: Acquisition
Syntax II
Reading: Crain 1992
10
13
14
Class 12: Production
Slips of the tongue
Reading: Dell 1995
15
16
Class 13: Production
Flexibility and ordering
Reading: Ferreira 1997
17
20
21
Class 14: Production
Child production
Reading: Phillips 1995
22
23
Group Presentation 1
24
27
28
Class 15: Comprehension
Modularity I
Reading: TBA
29
30
Class 16: Comprehension
Sentence processing I
Reading: Garrett 1990
31

November

 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 3
4
Class 17: Comprehension
Lexical processing
Reading: Forster 1990
5
6
Class 18: Comprehension
Sentence processing II
Reading: MacDonald, Just & Carpenter 1992
7
10
11
Class 19: Comprehension
Sentence processing III
Reading: MacDonald, Pearlmutter & Seidenberg 1994
12
13
Class 20: Comprehension:
Modularity II
Reading: Phillips 1996
14
17
18
Class 21: Neurolinguistics
Aphasia I
Readings: Zurif 1990, Blumstein 1995
19
20
Class 22: Neurolinguistics
Aphasia II
Reading: TBA
21
24
25
Class 23: Neurolinguistics
PET, fMRI
Readings: Corina et al. 1997, Hickok et al. 1996?, Peterson et al. 1988?
26
27
Thanksgiving
28

December

 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 1
2
Class 24: Neurolinguistics
Electrophysiology I
Readings: Friederici 1995, Garrett 1995
3
4
Group Presentation 2
5
8
9
Class 25: Neurolinguistics
Electrophysiology II
Readings: Phillips et al. 1995, 1997ab (?)
10 11 12
15
16
Group projects due
17 18 19