Schedule

Times & Places

• Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:15, Gore 306

Topics

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

Update on October 1st: due dates (yellow boxes) revised through October 27th. Due dates beyond 10/27 and readings not yet updated.

September
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	1 Class 1: Introduction Past tense: learning Read: Pinker 1995, Plunkett 1995	2	3 Class 2: Introduction Past tense: processing Read: Ullman et al. 1997, Marslen-Wilson et al. 1997	4
7 Labor Day	8 Class 3: Introduction Past tense: breakdown Read: Jaeger et al. 1996, Seidenberg & Hoeffner 1997; Lab 1a due Neural Networks introduction	9	10 Class 4: Acquisition Maturation; Read: Aitchison ch 4	11
14	15 Class 5: Acquisition Learnability: Read: Aitchison 5 & 8, Saffran et al. 1996 Lab 1b due Past Tense Learning	16	17 Class 6: Acquisition Speech Perception Read: Werker 1995, Stager & Werker 1997	18
21	22 Class 7: Acquisition Speech Perception Read: Matthews & Brown 1998	23	24 Class 8: Acquisition Verb meanings Read: Gleitman 1990, Pinker 1994 Lab 2 due Speech Perception	25
28	29 Class 9: Acquisition Syntax Read: Aitchison ch 6	30

October
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			1 Class 10: Acquisition Syntax	2
5	6 Class 11: Acquisition Syntax Read: Crain 1992 Group Project topic due	7	8 Class 12: Production Read: Aitchison 11 Homework 1 due Verb meanings	9
12	13 Class 13: Production Read: Dell 1995	14	15 Class 14: Production Read: Ferreira 1997 Lab 3 due Early Syntax	16
19	20 Class 15: Comprehension Read: Aitchison 9 & 10	21	22 Class 17: Comprehension Read: Garrett 1990 Lab 4 due Syntax Experiment	23
26	27 Class 16: Group Project Report I	28	29 Class 18: Comprehension Read: MacDonald et al. 1992	30 Lab 5a due Stimuli for ambiguity experiment

November
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
2	3 Election Day - no class!	4	5 Class 19: Comprehension Read: MacDonald et al. 1994	6
9 Lab 5b due Run as subject in ambiguity experiment	10 Class 20: Comprehension Read: Gibson 1998	11	12 Class 21: Neurolinguistics Read: Aitchison 3	13
16 Lab 6 due Recurrent Network	17 Class 22: Neurolinguistics Read: Zurif 1990	18	19 Class 23: Neurolinguistics	20
23 Homework 2 due	24 Class 24: Neurolinguistics Read: Friederici 1995	25	26 Thanksgiving	27 Thanksgiving
30

December
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	1 Class 25: Neurolinguistics Read: Petersen et al. 1988	2	3 Class 26: Group Project Report II	4
7	8 Class 27: Neurolinguistics	9	10	11
14	15 Group Projects Due	16	17	18
21	22	23	24	25 Christmas
28	29	30	31