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’).
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 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.)
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’)
There are two readings for Friday, 10/1.  The first is another excerpt from the following book, which is where your previous reading also came from: Chomsky, Noam. 1988. Language and Politics. (Carlos P. Otero, ed.) Montreal: Black Rose Books. The excerpt that you’ll read for Friday deals with innate knowledge of language, and the concept of ‘Universal …
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Your reading for Monday, 9/27 consist of several excerpts from the following book (as usual, the reading can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website): Chomsky, Noam. 1988. Language and Politics. (Carlos P. Otero, ed.) Montreal: Black Rose Books. In fact, the title of the book is rather misleading:  it is a collection of interviews …
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For Friday, 9/24, your reading assignment will be pgs. 26-44 (sections 1-5) and pgs. 54-58 (section 11) of the following article, which can be downloaded from the class website Chomsky, Noam. 1959. Review of Verbal Behavior. Language 35: 26-58. (Note that pgs. 26-44 of the article were originally assigned for tomorrow. Even though our discussion …
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For Monday 9/20, please read the following, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Newmeyer, F. 1986. Linguistic Theory in America. Excerpts from Chapters 1 & 2. Searle, J. 1972. “Chomsky’s Revolution in Linguistics”. Sections 1,2 & 4. (Sections 3 & 5 of the Searle reading address certain debates that were …
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