Schedule

BCSC 259: Lecture Schedule (Subject to change)

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Date
Topic
Assignments
Readings
01/21
Syllabus + Why Study Language Development
 
 
01/23
Methods for Studying Language Development
 
 
01/28
Early Speech Perception
Methods quiz (in class)
Decasper & Spence, 1986
Hym, 2023
01/30
Early Speech Perception
 
Pat Kuhl TED talk
Werker, 2012
02/04
Word Segmentation and Distributional Learning
 
N: Flo et al., 2019
Saffran et al., 1996
B: Antovich & Graf Estes, 2018
02/06
Phonological Development and Babbling
 
Petitto & Marentette, 1991
Bass-Ringdahl, 2010
Schoen, 2011
Overby, 2019
Bergelson & Swingley, 2012
02/11
Exam 1
Study :)
 
02/13
First Words and Vocabulary
Wordbank scavenger hunt (in class)
Gopnik, 1988
02/18
Processes of Lexical Development
2 Wordbank project ideas
Markman
Braginsky
02/20
Processes of Lexical Development: Pragmatic Inference
 
Lucca & Wilbourn, 2019
Grigoroglou & Papafragou, 2022
02/25
Processes of Lexical Development: Bootstrapping
 
Babineau et al., 2024
Friedrich & Friederici, 2004
02/27
Language Input
CHILDES pt.1 (in class)
Hart & Risley
Bergelson et al., 2023
Byers-Heinlein, 2013
03/04
Exam 2
Study :)
 
03/06
One-word to Multi-word
Propose 2 language input project ideas
CHILDES pt.2 (in class)
Sachs & Trueswell, 1978
03/11
Spring Break (No Class)
 
 
03/13
Spring Break (No Class)
 
 
03/18
Grammatical development: comprehension
 
Lidz et al., 2003
Tomasello, 2000
03/20
Grammatical development
Final paper proposals due
Ambridge, 2012
Mintz, 2003
Binger & Light, 2008
03/25
Grammatical development: production
 
Leonard, 2013
Crain & Nakayama, 1987
03/27
Pragmatic Development and Discourse
 
Magee & Sutton-Smith, 1983
Denmark et al., 2014
Piazza et al., 2021
Smolak et al., 2019
04/01
Exam 3
Study :)
 
04/03
Adult Language Processing
 
Whitehouse et al., 2009
Zhang et al., 2021 OR
Fitch et al., 2021
04/08
Adult Language Processing
Gorilla.sc exercise
Balota et al., 2007
Donahoo et al., 2022
04/10
L2 in Childhood
Propose 2 language processing project ideas
Snedeker, 2007
Hoff, 2002
Curtiss et al., 1974
Hall et al., 2017
04/15
L2 in Adulthood
 
Marinova-Todd et al., 2012
Mavrou & Chao, 2023
04/17
Aphasias
 
Ben-David et al., 2015
Hickok et al., 1998
Perani et al., 2003
04/22
[Class chooses the topic]
 
 
04/24
Exam 4
Study :)
 
04/29
[Class chooses the topic]
 
 
05/01
 
Final papers due
 
 
Final presentations
 
 

Possible topics for the last days of class (assuming we get through the materials)

  • Swearing
  • Communicative Development in Animals
  • Duolingo and language learning apps
  • Schools as Gatekeepers of Language Norms
  • Language Evolution on the Internet