LX540 “final” date
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.
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Example topics
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 …
Topic examples coming soon
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 …
The rest of the CHILDES lab is now posted
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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The readings page is getting away from me
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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Office hours change
Due to the fact that I am now teaching Semantics at the time I had previously set for my Wednesday office hours, I need to move them to a different time. Which I hereby do. My new office hours are: Tuesday 11-12 Wednesday 12-1 Thursday 11-12 However, if none of those are convenient, or indeed …
Are these your textbooks?
Somebody in the Semantics class today (Friday) left behind their LX540 textbooks, and I have collected them. Are they yours? Possibly, if (a) you used to have textbooks, (b) you no longer have textbooks, (c) you were kind of in the middle back of the Semantics classroom. Let me know if these conditions describe your …
Homework 0
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 …
Course number change: Now LX 540
The course number has changed for this course. It used to be a topics course, but now has its own number: CAS LX 540. Otherwise, nothing has changed.
Future home of the Topics: Language acquisition course site
This is where information about the Spring 2011 Topics course (Language acquisition) will be found.