This is the current view of how the semester will proceed, but the schedule will be adjusted from time to time. Do not rely on the printed copy; the truth is here: http://ling-blogs.bu.edu/lx350s19/schedule/. Homework will generally be handed out on Thursdays and be due on Thursdays, at least initially. (Homework 1 will be due Thursday, January 31.)
| T | R | Topic | Notes | Reading | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/22 | 24 | Learnability, parameters | Lust (2006, chs. 1-2) (Zukowski & Larsen (2011)) |
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| 29 | 31 | Root infinitives, syntax and morphology |
[MB] |
Poeppel & Wexler (1993) |
Due 1/31: HW 1 |
| 2/5 | 7 | Case marking, CHILDES |
[AK]
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Wexler (1998), Schütze & Wexler (1996) |
Due 2/7: HW 2 |
| 12 | 14 | Analysis and methodology | Snyder (2007, ch. 5-6) |
Due 2/14: HW 3 (CHILDES) |
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| 21 | Parsing, perception, parameter setting |
[RX] |
Fodor (2017) |
– |
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| 26 | 28 | Word learning |
[FK] |
Guasti (2002, 3.1-3.3) |
Due 2/28: HW 4 (Qs on G) |
| 3/5 | 7 |
SLI, pragmatics/syntax interface
Review, regroup |
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| 12 | 14 | Spring recess | |||
| 19 | 21 | Phonological acquisition, prosody | Lust (2006, ch. 8) | ||
| 26 | 28 | Acquisition of phonology,
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[MB]
|
Smith (2010) |
– |
| 4/2 | 4 | Artificial language learning, modeling |
[FK] |
Culbertson & Smolensky (2009) |
Due 4/4: HW 5 (Qs on C&S) |
| 9 | 11 | Signed languages Maturation, passives, unaccusatives |
Brentari et al. (2017) Babyonyshev et. al (2001) |
– |
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| 16 | 18 | Unaccusatives, L2 |
[AK] |
Sugisaki (2016), Fukuda (2017) |
– |
| 23 | 25 | Islands, L2 |
[RX] |
Sugisaki (2012), Pearl & Sprouse (2013) |
– |
| 30 | 5/2 | Wrap-up, presentations | |||