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Tuesday, 1/27 Speech perception and acquisition

Miller 1991 ______

Maye, et al 2002 ______Friday, 1/30 Speech segmentation; phonological production patterns

Jusczyk 1999______

Ingram 1979 ______

Part Three: Lexical Acquisition

Tuesday, 2/3 Biased learning of nouns Markman 1994 ______Bloom 2001 (begin) ______obligatory 2 Friday, 2/6 Debates in noun/word learning

Meet with me to discuss project topic Read: Bloom 2001 (cont'd) Hirsh-Pasek et al's comment. Naigles' s comment. Bloom's reply to these comments. Tuesday, 2/10 Acquiring verbs

Meet with me to discuss project topic Gleitman 1990______Pinker 1994 ______Friday, 2/13 Syntactic constraints on verb learning

Meet with me to discuss project topic. First take-home quiz [pdf] Fisher, et al 1994 ______

Part Four: Morphology

Tuesday, 2/24 Learning regular and irregular morphology Last day to meet with me to discuss project topic. First quiz due Pinker 1995b ______Yang 2000 Part Five: Acquiring syntax - various approaches

Friday, 2/27 Argument structure and verb learning

Topic and reading list due (4-8 articles). Goodluck 1991 ______

Tuesday, 3/3 Argument structure (cont'd). Item-based approach to syntactic acquisition

First CEL diary check Cartwright and Brent 1997 ______Tomasello 2000 ______

Friday, 3/6 Other approaches to syntactic acquisition (cont'd) Fisher 2002 ______Saffran, Aslin, Newport 1996

Part Six: Sentence processing and sensitivity to structure

Tuesday 3/10 Sentence processing in adults and children

Research questions, pilot data, any revisions to reading list due Tanenhaus & Trueswell 1995______

Friday 3/13 Sentence processing (cont'd) & Structure sensitivity Read: Trueswell et al 1999 ______Meroni and Crain 2003 ______Crain and Nakayama 1987 ______

Part Seven: Acquiring meaning Tuesday, 3/17 Compositional semantics: adults and children Crain and Lillo-Martin 1999 ______

Tuesday, 3/24 Acquiring quantification I Lidz and Musolino 2002 ______

Friday, 3/27 Acquiring quantification II

Second CEL diary check. Gualmini 2004 ______Lidz et al. 2004 ______

Tuesday, 3/31 Acquiring quantification II

Introduction and background section of the paper are due (not more than 8 pages). Hurewitz et al 2006 ______

Friday, 4/3 Pragmatics: theory of mind, implicatures. Papafragou et al (to appear) ______background: Horn 2004: Implicature. Handbook of Pragmatics, Horn et al eds. Oxford: Blackwell

Papafragou and Musolino 2003. ______

Part Eight: Bilingualism and second language acquisition. Instinct for language.

Critical periods.

Tuesday, 4/7 Bilingualism and SLA

Second take-home quiz [pdf] Bhatia and Ritchie 1999 ______Omaggio-Hadley 2001 (perhaps a guest lecture on SLA by Prof. Irina Dubinina)

Friday, 4/10, Tuesday 4/14 - NO CLASS, Passover holiday

Friday 4/17 Pidgins and Creoles Second quiz due Your second version of data (including data from non-CEL sources) is due. Goldin-Meadow and Mylander 1998 ______Senghas and Coppola 2001 ______

Tuesday, 4/21 Critical periods I

Handout draft and abstract due. These two articles: ______Newman, Bavalier, Corina, Jezzard, and Neville 2002 Bavalier and Neville 2002

Newport 2002 ______

Friday, 4/24 Critical periods II DeKeyster 2000 ______Bialystock 2002 ______