LING499a Seminar in Psycholinguistics: Grammar, processing and learning of long-distance dependencies (Spring 2009)
Course information
Instructor: Akira Omaki email web
Meets: TuTh 9:30-10:45pm, 3416 Marie Mount Hall (upstairs lab conference room)
Course materials
- syllabus (pdf)
- readings
- class presentation guideline (pdf)
- how to make a pivot table (pdf)
- guidelines for writing a one-page report (pdf)
Useful links
- UMD acquisition lab webpage
- Guide for using IPA fonts on computers
- Link to the Linger webpage: useful for implementing self-paced reading
Updated
course schedule
|
Week
|
Date
|
Topic
|
Readings
(when due) |
Assignments
(when assigned) |
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1
|
1/27
|
Intro / course overview | ||
|
|
1/29
|
levels of analysis [slides] | Marr (Optional: Phillips paper on syntax) | |
|
2
|
2/3
|
competence vs. performance continued; [slides] wh-syntax intro [notes] |
Intro wh syntax | |
|
|
2/5
|
wh-syntax; constraints [slides] | Boeckx | |
|
3
|
2/10
|
Lab 1 guideline [slides] | Lab 1 assigned (see the google doc page for details) |
|
|
|
2/12
|
Lab1 stimuli discussion [slides] |
1st presentation assignments (see slides for details) |
|
|
4
|
2/17
|
Sentence processing intro [slides] | Crocker | |
|
|
2/19
|
incremantality & prediction [Michael & Brian's slides] |
Altmann & Kamide | |
|
5
|
2/24
|
LDD processing [lecture
slides]
[Erica&Sherrod's slides] |
Stowe;Traxler & Pickering | |
|
|
2/26
|
LDD processing 2 [Shannon & Faisal's slides] | Sussman & Sedivy | Lab 1 due |
|
6
|
3/3
|
LDD processing & constraints [slides] | Phillips | |
|
|
3/5
|
Lab 2 discussion [slides] | Lab 2 assigned | |
|
7
|
3/10
|
Lab 2 discussion continued [slides] | ||
|
|
3/12
|
2nd presentation; Lab 3 discussion [slides] | Valian (Optional: Lidz) |
Lab 2 due; |
|
8
|
3/17
|
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS |
|
3/19
|
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS |
|
9
|
3/24
|
Acquisition intro; Child parser | Trueswell et al |
|
3/26
|
DATA COLLECTION DAY (Akira away) |
|
10
|
3/31
|
Simple wh development Final paper requirement discussion [slides1], [slides2] |
Seidl et al; Crain & Lillo-Martin Ch18-20 |
Final paper instruction given |
|
4/2
|
Complex wh development [Brian's slides] | Thonrton & Crain (Brian presents); Crain & Lillo-Martin Ch21,22 |
|
11
|
4/7
|
Complex wh & constraints [Sherrod's slides] | de Villiers & Roeper (sherrod presents) | Lab 3 data due |
|
4/9
|
Lab 4 discussion [slides] | Goro & Akiba | Lab 4 assigned |
|
12
|
4/14
|
Child parsing & learning 1 | Savage et al. (shannon presents) |
|
4/16
|
WORK ON LAB4 (Akira away) | Lab 3 write-up due |
|
13
|
4/21
|
Lab3 summary; Child parsing & learning 2 |
Valian & Casey (erica presents) |
|
4/23
|
learning dependencies 1 | Santelmann & Juczysk (faisal presents) |
|
14
|
4/28
|
learning dependencies 2 | Gomez & Maye (michael presents) | Lab 4 write-up due |
|
4/30
|
final project presentations 1 |
|
15
|
5/5
|
final project presentations 2 |
|
5/7
|
spill-over |
|
16
|
5/12
|
wrap up | Final paper due on the 16th! |