For Friday 10/29 and Monday 11/1, please read the following, both of which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Jackendoff, Ray. 1994. Patterns in the Mind, Chapter 11 (‘Language and the Brain’). Sacks, Oliver. 2005. Recalled to Life.  The New Yorker.
For Monday 10/25 and Wednesday 10/27, please read pgs. 271-284 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Whitney, Paul. 1998. The Psychology of Language, Chapter 9 (‘Language Production and Conversation’).
Your third writing assignment is due in class on Wednesday, October 27. Â Here’s a copy of the assignment, in case you missed it in class today: Writing Assignment #3 (due Wednesday, October 27)
For Friday, 10/22, please read pgs. 213-222 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website (note that you read the first portion of this chapter for Wednesday): Whitney, Paul. 1998. The Psychology of Language, Chapter 7 (‘Sentence Processing’).
For Wednesday, 10/20, please read pgs. 203-213 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website (note that you’ll read pgs. 213-222 of this chapter for this Friday, October 22): Whitney, Paul. 1998. The Psychology of Language, Chapter 7 (‘Sentence Processing’). I’ve also uploaded a very short excerpt …
For Monday 10/18, please read the following, both of which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Jackendoff, Ray. 1994. Patterns in the Mind, pgs. 126-135 of Chapter 10 (‘Language Acquisition in Unusual Circumstances, Part 2’) Bickerton, Derek. 1983. Creole Languages. Scientific American 249(8): 116-122.
For Friday 10/15, please read the following, both of which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Jackendoff, Ray. 1994. Patterns in the Mind, Chapter 7 (‘American Sign Language’) Jackendoff, Ray. 1994. Patterns in the Mind, pgs. 122-125 of Chapter 9 (‘Language Acquisition in Unusual Circumstances, Part 1’) (Note that you already read …
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For Tuesday 10/12, please read pgs. 112-122  of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Jackendoff, Ray. 1994. Patterns in the Mind, Chapter 9 (‘Language Acquisition in Unusual Circumstances, Part 1’) (Note that you’ll read the final few pages of this chapter for Friday, October 15.)
As I’ve mentioned in this week’s class meetings, your first midterm exam will be next Wednesday, October 13. Â (Note that we’ve postponed the exam one day from the original schedule, which had the midterm occurring on Tuesday, October 12. Â Since I didn’t hear any objections to this postponement over email, I’m assuming that everyone is …
For Wednesday 10/6, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Jackendoff, Ray. 1994. Patterns in the Mind, Chapter 8 (‘How Children Learn Language’)