Schedule

Times & Places

Topics

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

Dates marked in yellow are due dates for assignments, labs, projects. (Rare) vacations are marked in pink.

September

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

31
Class 1: Introduction
Read: Aitchison, Ch. 1, 4-5

1

2
Class 2: Speech Perception - Initial and Final states
Read: Werker 1995

3

6
Labor Day

7
Class 3: Speech Perception - Development, Features
Read: Matthews & Brown 1998, Phillips et al. 1999

8

9
Class 4: Early Word Learning
Lab 1 due
Read: Jusczyk 1999, Hirsh-Pasek & Golinkoff 1996, Stager & Werker 1997, Saffran et al. 1996

10

13

14
Class 5: Verb Learning
Read: Gleitman 1990, Pinker 1994

15

16
Class 6: Verb Learning
Homework 1 due
Read: Gilette et al. 1999

17

20

21
Class 7: Verb Learning - Cross-language variation
Read: Kim et al. 1999, Aitchison Ch. 8

22

23
Class 8: Morphosyntax - Cross-language variation
Read: Poeppel & Wexler 1993

24

27

28
Class 9: Morphosyntax - Development
Lab 2 due

29

30
Class 10: Syntactic Constraints, Experimental Methods
Read: Crain 1992, Crain & Thornton 1998

October

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

1

4

5
Class 11: Delayed Syntactic Knowledge
Group Project topic due
Read: Fox et al. 1995, O'Grady 1998

6

7
Class 12: Rules & Networks - Past Tense I
Lab 3 due
Read: Pinker 1995, Plunkett 1995

8
Fall Break!

11

12
Class 13: Rules & Networks - Past Tense II
Read: Ullman et al. 1997, Marslen-Wilson et al. 1997, Seidenberg & Hoeffner 1998

13

14
Class 14: Neural Network Models
Lab 4a due
Read: Marcus 1999, Marcus et al. 1999

15

18

19
Class 15: Learning Mechanisms I
Lab 4b due
Read: Elman 1993, Rohde & Plaut 1999

20

21
Class 16: Learning Mechanisms II

22

25

26
Class 17: Group Project Report I

27

28
Class 18: Comprehension - Background
Read: Aitchison Ch. 9, Garrett 1990, (optional, Phillips 1996, Ch. 5)

29

November

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

1

2
Class 19: Comprehension - Syntactic Search & Errors
Lab 5 due

3

4
Class 20: Comprehension - breakdown and recovery
Read: MacDonald et al. 1994, Gibson 1998

5

8

9
Class 21: Comprehension - Lexical integration
Lab 6a due

10

11
Class 22: Comprehension - Semantic analysis
Read: Tanenhaus et al. 1995, Sedivy 1999

12

15

16
Class 23: Neurolinguistics - Aphasiology
Lab 6b due
Read: Swaab 1998, Zurif 1990

17

18
Class 24: Neurolinguistics - Electrophysiology

19

22

23
Class 25: Neurolinguistics - Electrophysiology
Read: Friederici 1995, Steinhauer et al. 1999

24

25
Thanksgiving

26
Thanksgiving

29

30
Class 26: Neurolinguistics - Functional Neuroimaging

December

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

1

2
Class 27: Group Project Report II

3

6

7
Class 28: Group Project Report II

8

9

10

13

14
Group Project Final Reports Due

15

16

17

20

21

22

23

24

27

28

29

30

31