As you undoubtedly know, our class meeting for this morning has been cancelled. In light of this cancellation, I have decided to postpone our in-class quiz until this Friday, Nov. 2. This way, you will still have a chance in Wednesday’s class to ask any study questions. So, our updated schedule for this week is: …
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Your third in-class quiz will be on Wednesday, October 31 Friday, November 2. The quiz will consist of several short-answer responses (more than on your previous quizzes); there will be no longer, essay-style response this time. The quiz will cover the following topics, which we have encountered in class and in our readings: The normal …
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For next Monday (10/29) this Wednesday (10/31), please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Bickerton, Derek. 1983. Creole languages. Scientific American 249(8): 116-122.
For this Friday 10/26, please read the following: Chapter 7 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind pgs. 126-130 of Chapter 10 of the Jackendoff book I have also posted the following optional reading at the “Readings” section of this website: Senghas, Ann, Sotaro Kita & Asli Özyürek. 2004. Children creating core properties of language: Evidence …
For Wednesday, 10/24, please read the following article, which may be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Newport, Elissa L. 2002. Critical periods in language development. In Lynn Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 737-740. London: Macmillan. I have also made the following optional reading available for download: Gould, James L. & Peter Marler. …
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The following readings were originally assigned for Friday 10/19, but since we are running about a day behind schedule, they should now be completed for next Monday 10/22 (the latter reading can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): Chapter 9 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind, and Lenhoff, Howard M., Paul P. …
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For next Monday 10/15 and Wednesday 10/17, please read the following (the latter can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): Chapter 8 of the Jackendoff book Patterns in the Mind, and Eimas, Peter D. 1985. The perception of speech in early infancy. Scientific American 252(1): 46-52.
Your second in-class quiz will be on Friday, October 12. The basic format of the quiz will be just like the first one: a handful of short-essay responses, requiring a paragraph or so of discussion, as well as a longer essay response. It will cover the following topics, which we have encountered in class and …
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For next Tuesday 10/9 and Wednesday 10/10, please read the following (the latter can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website): 1. Chapters 1-3 of The Atoms of Language, by Mark Baker. 2. Another batch of excerpts from Chomsky, Noam. 1988. Language and Politics. (Carlos P. Otero, ed.) Montreal: Black Rose Books.