Schedule

Times & Places

• Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:15, Gore 308

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