Psych 56L/ Ling 51

This is our wonderfully ambitious schedule. We'll attempt to keep with it, but it is subject to modification.

Date	Topic	Notices & Assignments	Reference Material
1/7/14	Introduction to Language Acquisition (pdf) Podcasts (1) Grammar (2) Learning by correction (3) Motherese	Review questions available for intro HW1 available	The Linguistic Genius of Babies, up through 10:07 Language & Thought, 10:34-11:38, 14:14-15:22 Pearl: How Do They Do It?, pp.1-7 The quality of motherese Descriptive & prescriptive grammar
1/9/14	The Study of Language Acquisition (pdf) Podcasts (1) Domain-specific learning (2) Domain-general learning (3) Theoretical viewpoint comparison		A modern diary study (Deb Roy), up through 4:20 Pearl: Standardized Tests and Measures of Language Development, pp.9-10 Ambridge & Rowland 2013: spontaneous naturalistic speech, diary, & parental report data, elicited production, comprehension methods Sample nonsense speech used to test infant statistical learning abilities Pearl: The 'Nature' in Nature-Nurture: Something Must Be Innate, pp.11-14
1/14/14	Biological Bases of Language I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Critical vs. sensitive period (2) The "Less is More" hypothesis	Review questions available for biological bases of language	Pidgins Hawaiian pidgin example Creoles From pidgin to creole: Suriname Brentari & Coppola 2012: Sign language creation Nicaraguan sign language Pearl: The Critical Period Hypothesis, pp.15-34 Language bioprogram hypothesis Newport's "Less Is More" hypothesis
1/16/14	Biological Bases of Language II (pdf) Guest lecture: William Podcasts (1) Broca's aphasia: comprehension (2) Split-brain patients		Pearl: The Development of the Left-Hemisphere Specialization for Language, pp.35-38 Pearl: Methodology, pp.39-41 Language experience during a stroke, ~10:30-13:22 Language processing in the brain Ambridge & Rowland 2013: functional neuroimaging methods Broca's aphasia Example Broca's aphasic Wernicke's aphasia Example Wernicke's aphasic Another Wernicke's aphasic Interactive split-brain patient experiment
1/21/14	Biological Bases of Language III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Bird communication vs. human language (2) Nim Chimpsky's combinations (3) Teaching bonobos (4) FLB vs. FLN (5) Human language layers		Pearl: Teaching Words To Animals, pp.43-52 vervet monkey calls: leopard, snake Honeybee waggle dance Dolphin language Dolphin whistle samples Could we speak the language of dolphins?: especially 6:07-6:50, 8:36-9:26, 10:26-10:52 Alex the parrot Berwick et al. 2012: Birdsong syntax Children vs. chimps Kanzi, ~2:35-7:42 Kanzi using lexigrams Kanzi understanding spoken langauge Kanzi understanding novel sentences Human language vs. other animal comm systems (evolution)
1/23/14	Phonological Development I (pdf) Guest lecture: Sierra	HW1 due HW2 available Review questions available for phonological development	Diagram of vocal tract IPA sound conversion chart Relevant consonants chart Relevant vowels chart Interactive full vowel chart Interactive full consonant chart A podcast series on the sounds of English American English vowels Dialect variation in North American English Typing IPA characters (one resource) Typing IPA characters (another resource) IPA virtual keyboard
1/28/14	Phonological Development II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Categorical perception decision tasks (2) Infant categorical perception evidence (3) Categorical perception non-humans		Pearl: Prelinguistic Speech Sound Development, pp.53-57 Baby babbling "conversation" Brandt et al. 2012: music of speech Pearl: Categorical Perception, pp.59-61 Meltzoff et al. 2009: (section on lang learning) Motherese Ambridge & Rowland 2013: Conditioned head-turn preference procedure Research of Janet Werker: especially 1:54-4:02 on conditioned head-turn preference procedure
1/30/14	Phonological Development III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Deletion processes (2) Substitution processes (3) Multiple process examples	Have IPA reference charts accessible during class	15-month-old pronunciation Child pronunciation: "popsicle" Time lapse of "water" pronunciation, ~4:20-5:40 Pearl: Making Adjustments, pp.63-68 Consonantal classes (interactive)
2/04/14	Midterm Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams
2/06/14	Midterm Exam Locations available: PCB 1100 & the computer lab in NS1 2144	Make sure to have your coursebooks and notes available during the exam.
2/11/14	Lexical Development I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Tense (2) Aspect	Review questions available for lexical development	Pearl: Learning Words, pp.69-71 Wagner 2010: (tense & aspect)
2/13/14	Lexical Development II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Underextension & overextension errors (2) Identifying a word spurt		Pearl: Word Meaning, pp.73-75 Mobile App: What's that word? Human Simulation Paradigm reference: Gleitman et al. 2005 Pearl: Overextensions and Underextensions of First Words, pp.77-78 A humorous example of possible prelingual conceptual categories [Dr. Who] A humorous example of overextension Context of vocabulary development, ~5:45-11:00
2/18/14	Lexical Development III (pdf) Podcasts (1) Lexical biases in humans vs. collies (2) Lexical biases in young children		Pearl: Fast Mapping, pp.79-80 Fast mapping by Ricoh Fast mapping by Chaser Pearl: Lexical Constraints on Referent Mapping, p.81 Referential certainty and vocabulary growth Wagner 2010: (syntactic bootstrapping & argument structure) Fisher et al. 2010: syntactic bootstrapping
2/20/14	Development of Morphology & Syntax I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Buiding syntactic trees	HW2 due HW3 available Review questions available for development of morphology & syntax	Morphemes Syntax: Context-free grammars
2/25/14	Development of Morphology & Syntax II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Sentence comprehension strategies (2) Zipfian distributions in language		Pearl: Morphological Development in Children Acquiring Languages Other Than English, pp.83-84 Children know more than they can say
2/27/14	Development of Complex Syntax (pdf) Podcasts (1) Implied subjects and objects (2) Quantifier scope (3) Quantifier spreading		Pearl: Syntactic Knowledge, pp.85-97 Ambridge & Rowland 2013: elicited production, imitation, syntactic priming, act-tasks, preferential looking, grammaticality judgments A poem showing pronoun reference issues, about a quarter of the way down the page Wagner 2010: (sections on quantification & scope)
3/04/14	Language & Cognition I (pdf) Podcasts (1) Navigation experiment	Review questions available for language & cognition	Wolff & Holmes 2010: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Linguistic relativity Numerical cognition
3/06/14	Language & Cognition II (pdf) Podcasts (1) Indirect false belief tasks		Wolff & Holmes 2010: cognitive off-loading False belief task & theory of mind Carlson et al. 2013: Theory of mind
3/11/14	Language Development in Special Populations (pdf) Guest lecture: Lawrence Podcasts (1) Pronoun reversal errors in ASL	HW3 due Review questions available for language development in special populations	Pearl: Language in Special Populations, pp.99-122 Sign language examples Signed vs. spoken languages ASL resources: school for the deaf, dictionaries, lessons & dictionary ASL signs differing by feature values Williams syndrome video
3/13/14	Final Exam Review	Come with questions to class	QuickGuide: How to take an online exam through EEE More detailed guide to EEE online exams
3/20/14	Final Exam 1:30pm-3:30pm Locations available: PCB 1100 & the computer lab in NS1 2144	Make sure to have your coursebooks and notes available during the exam.

Psych 56L/ Ling 51: Schedule