I just realized that I hadn’t provided you with the examples I’d promised of some Informed Consent forms. Here are some sample Informed Consent forms, which were provided to me some time ago by Bruce Fraser (SED). These are not specific to studies in Linguistics, but it gives you the idea of what they say. …
Although I know it’s probably a little bit unlikely that anyone here will be able to go, I’ve learned that Nina Hyams will be at UConn on Thursday and Friday April 21-22. It’s a 2-hour drive, so it’s kind of within reach. Anyway, here are the details for her Friday colloquium, just in case. Colloquium …
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I just looked up when the LX540 final would have been, were there a final, and it would have been on Thursday, May 13 (the penultimate day of finals). In case you were wondering, now you know.
Although there are a number of details I’d still like to fill in, including linking in some references I have, adding more, etc., I’m ready to declare the example topics fit for consumption. If you go to the readings page, and click on the jump link to readings related to individual topics, you’ll see a …
Though I’d meant to have them ready by now, I will soon add a list of topics that people have done in the past (with some related readings) to the end of the readings page. They aren’t there yet, as of right now, but they should be there within a day. I’ll post something here …
I wanted to provide a couple of “hints” of a sort concerning the wh-question data for the CHILDES lab (section two), just as a means of checking whether what you find/found is similar to what I found. The exact numbers you come up with aren’t going to be the same as mine anyway, since so …
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When you work on the discussion section of the CHILDES write-up, I ask you to compare your results to some that were reported by Valian (1991). However, one thing that I should really point out: The MLU counts you found in the first section of the lab are probably incomparable to Valian’s. This is inconvenient, …
Ok, I think I’m now satisfied enough with the description of the rest of the CHILDES lab assignment, so you can go ahead and follow the instructions there in your effort to create a short write-up of the lab experiment. As a reminder, the point is to by the end have all three sections of …
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I just realized that I still need to make some adjustments to the readings page (and to the schedule) to reflect our actual pace through my planned set of topics. In particular, Tuesday is the “parameters in L2” day, not the “verb-particle constructions” day, and I had at least in one of these cases listed …
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I’ve gotten enough questions about homework #1 that I’m going to make it due on Tuesday, not tomorrow. I’ll talk a bit about it tomorrow to try to make it clearer what I’m going for there—it does make sense, but I think it wasn’t stated in a clear enough way. If you somehow happen to …
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