{"id":116,"date":"2010-10-06T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T22:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx245f10\/?p=116"},"modified":"2023-04-29T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:27:30","slug":"midterm-exam-scheduled-for-w-1013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/2010\/10\/06\/midterm-exam-scheduled-for-w-1013\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Exam scheduled for W 10\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in this week&#8217;s class meetings, your first midterm exam will be next Wednesday, October 13. \u00c2\u00a0(Note that we&#8217;ve postponed the exam one day from the original schedule, which had the midterm occurring on Tuesday, October 12. \u00c2\u00a0Since I didn&#8217;t hear any objections to this postponement over email, I&#8217;m assuming that everyone is fine with it.)<\/p>\n<p>The exam will cover all of the material from our readings and lectures, up to and including this Friday&#8217;s class meeting. \u00c2\u00a0However, the majority of the questions will address our more recent material: \u00c2\u00a0nature vs. nurture (empiricism vs. nativism) in language learning; the &#8220;poverty of the stimulus&#8221; argument for innate knowledge of language; Universal Grammar, principles, and parameters; and the stages of language development in children. \u00c2\u00a0The exam will consist of several very-short answer questions (just a few sentences should be enough to answer each of these), as well as a longer, essay-style question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in this week&#8217;s class meetings, your first midterm exam will be next Wednesday, October 13. \u00c2\u00a0(Note that we&#8217;ve postponed the exam one day from the original schedule, which had the midterm occurring on Tuesday, October 12. \u00c2\u00a0Since I didn&#8217;t hear any objections to this postponement over email, I&#8217;m assuming that everyone is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/2010\/10\/06\/midterm-exam-scheduled-for-w-1013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Midterm Exam scheduled for W 10\/13&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx245f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}