On the sentence structures that you were supposed to draw for parts of homeworks 2 and 3, I had you number the nodes. But, just to clarify: there’s no secret, magic, or rules behind my choice of what number to assign to which node. I generally started from 1, and I started at the bottom, …
On Wednesday this week (9/27) I need to shift my office hours ahead a bit, so they will be from 11am-12:30pm. Next Wednesday they’ll return to 12-1.
My new office hours will be: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5pm Wednesdays 12-1pm (I have moved the Friday office hours to Wednesday.) As before, if you want to set up a meeting with me outside of those times, just let me know and it can probably be arranged.
Just as a note of reassurance, there are still things to cover tomorrow that are relevant to the homework. Don’t despair if you look at it and feel that you don’t quite know how it should work. You probably don’t, and that’s probably to be expected, given that it has not yet all been presented …
By the way, in case you hadn’t noticed this, there is a brief section of the textbook that talks about some of the concepts of functions and λ notation and so forth, that we talked about yesterday in class. We’ll go into it in some more detail in the coming classes, but in case you …
Harlan Lane (Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University) will be speaking on Wednesday, September 27th at 5 PM http://www.psych.neu.edu/people/faculty/lane.html “Deaf Ethnicity and the Failure of Medical Ethics” Place: Stone Science Center (675 Comm. Ave.) B50 ASL/English interpreters will be present. Abstract: This address is concerned with the language minority in North America called the …
As the semester gets underway, I’m discovering that I may not have picked the best times for my office hours, particularly on Friday. I will probably be switching them to Wednesday, which is also the day before homeworks will generally be due. I think that’s going to end up being a better time both for …
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The annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will arrive in the George Sherman Union the weekend of November 3-5. Check their web page for the schedule and details.
If you register before October 20, the cost of registering for the BUCLD is a little bit cheaper, so if you know you’re going to go, it’s worth registering early. Also note that doing a certain amount of volunteer work for the conference can get you in for free, more details will be announced about …
It seems I spent a bit too much time drawing cats and mats and a bit too little time proofreading on Homework 1. I was just trying to write up a key, and it turns out that Part 3 is wrong in a startlingly large number of ways. My suggestion: burn the copy of Homework …