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’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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It has come to my attention that the term “inflected” may not be familiar to some of you, so let me just outline what “inflected” is supposed to refer to. The term “inflected” here means basically “with a tense/agreement ending.” Adults use inflected verbs generally, except in the infinitive (where there is no tense or …
The last question of the homework refers to a table concerning child utterances containing not, and gives the table in the same form as the others, crossing inflection in the stimulus with inflection in the child’s utterance. “But wait,” you might say, “you don’t get inflected verbs with not in English. What’s going on?” Indeed, …
The first “homework” comes in two parts. The first part is just a couple of demographic questions for you. You can email your answers to me. If I did this right, you can click here to start your email with the questions already there. Do this anyway, even if you know that I know you, I might …