If you want a bit more detailed information about what I’m planning for the Topics: Universals of Language course next semester (it is now better worked-out than it was when I mentioned it in class), there is a site set up for it here: Fall 2010 CAS LX 500 Topics in Linguistics: Universals of Language …
If you are doing a project for which it would be useful to see bilingual data, you might take a look at what is in TalkBank. It’s operated much like the CHILDES database, except not so child-centric. There is some bilingual acquisition data in CHILDES itself, but it’s worth taking a look at TalkBank too. …
The videos we looked at today of children asking wh-questions came from the Macquarie University Centre for Cognitive Science Child Language Video Archive.
I’m not sure if this was mentioned in class, but Prof. Noam Chomsky is coming to campus to speak tonight, about issues concerning Palestine. To reiterate, this isn’t a Linguistics talk, it’s a talk about politics, but it is a chance to see Prof. Chomsky speak if you haven’t. Needless to say, politics being what …
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