| week/date | topic | suggested reading | supplementary reading |
week 1: 31 Oct.
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Preliminaries: |
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C. Phillips, *Syntax, Macmillan
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (2001).
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S. Edelman, Bridging
language with the rest of cognition: computational, algorithmic
and neurobiological issues and methods,
Proc. Ithaca EMCL workshop (John Benjamins, 2005, in press).
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week 2: 7 Nov.
[Assaf] |
Computational aspects of grammar acquisition: |
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P. Adriaans and M. van Zaanen, *Computational
Grammar Induction for Linguists, Grammars 7:57-68 (2004).
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A. Roberts and E. Atwell, Unsupervised grammar inference systems
for natural language, School of Computing, University of
Leeds, TR 2002.20 (2002).
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week 3: 14 Nov.
[Alona] |
A quick introduction to psycholinguistics: |
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M. Penke and A. Rosenbach, *What counts as evidence in
linguistics? The case of innateness, Studies in Language
28:480-526 (2004).
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N. F. Johnson, The psychological
reality of phrase-structure rules, Journal of Verbal Learning
and Verbal Behavior 4:469-475 (1965).
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week 4: 21 Nov.[no meeting] |
The nature of the Primary Linguistic Data (PLD): |
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G. K. Pullum and B. Scholz, *Empirical assessment of
poverty of the stimulus arguments, The Linguistic
Review 19:9-50 (2002).
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F. Reali and M. H. Christiansen, *Uncovering the richness of
the stimulus: Structural dependence and indirect statistical
evidence, Cognitive Science, in press (2005).
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B. MacWhinney, Language
Emergence, 17-42, in An integrated view of language
development Papers in honor of Henning Wode, P. Burmeister
and T. Piske and A. Rohde, eds. (2002).
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week 5: 28 Nov.
[Guy] |
Evidence for item-based development: |
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E. Bates and J. C. Goodman, *On the Emergence of Grammar
From the Lexicon, 29-79, in Emergence of Language,
B. MacWhinney, ed., Erlbaum (1999).
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M. Tomasello, *The
item-based nature of children's early syntactic development,
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4:156-163 (2000).
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week 6: 5 Dec.
[Alexandra] |
Evidence for imperfect adult performance: |
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A. J. Sanford and P. Sturt, *Depth of processing in
language comprehension: not noticing the evidence, Trends in
Cognitive Sciences 6:382-386 (2002).
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F. Ferreira, K. G. D. Bailey, and V. Ferraro, *Good-enough
representations in language comprehension, Current Directions
in Psychological Science 11:11-15 (2002).
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week 7: 12 Dec.
[Amnon] |
Evidence for imperfect adult "competence": |
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N. Chipere, Real
Language Users, CogPrints (1998).
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N. Chipere, *Native
speaker variations in syntactic competence: implications for first
language teaching, Language Awareness 10:107-124 (2001).
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week 8: 19 Dec.
 [Jonathan] |
Evidence for continuity with the rest of cognition: |
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C. L. Harris and E. Bates, *Clausal backgrounding
and pronominal reference: A functionalist approach to
c-command, Language and Cognitive Processes 17:237-270
(2002).
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week 9: 26 Dec.
 [Oren] |
Evidence for the centrality of experience: |
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C. L. Harris, Psycholinguistic
studies of entrenchment, in Conceptual Structures, Language
and Discourse, volume 2, J. Koenig, ed., CSLI (1998).
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J. Saffran, *Constraints on
statistical language learning, Journal of Memory and Language
47:172-196 (2002).
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week 10: 2 Jan.
 [Nana] |
Relying on experience: |
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R. Scha, R. Bod, and K. Sima'an, A
memory-based model of syntactic analysis: data-oriented
parsing J. of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence 11:409-440 (1999).
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week 11: 9 Jan.
  [Yasmine and Eitan] |
Learning grammar: |
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A. Clark, Unsupervised
induction of stochastic context-free grammars using distributional
clustering, Proc. CoNLL (2001).
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M. van Zaanen and P. Adriaans, Comparing two unsupervised grammar induction systems:
alignment-based learning vs. EMILE, School of Computing,
Leeds University TR 05 (2001).
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week 12: 16 Jan. [Daphna and Ephi] |
Learning grammar: |
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J. G. Wolff, Learning syntax and meanings
through optimization and distributional analysis, 179-215,
in Categories and Processes in Language Acquisition,
Y. Levy, I. M. Schlesinger, and M. D. S. Braine, eds., Erlbaum
(1988).
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P. Langley and S. Stromsten, Learning context-free grammars
with a simplicity bias, 220-228, Proc. 11th European
Conference on Machine Learning (2002).
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week 13: 23 Jan. [Zachi's talk] |
Learning grammar: ADIOS |
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Z. Solan, D. Horn, E. Ruppin, and S. Edelman,
*Unsupervised learning of
natural languages, in
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (102:11629-11634, 2005).
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Z. Solan, D. Horn, E. Ruppin, and S. Edelman,
*supplementary
material to Unsupervised learning of
natural languages.
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week 14: 30 Jan. [Shimon] |
Wrap-up: |
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A. E. Goldberg, *Constructions: a new
theoretical approach to language, Trends in Cognitive
Sciences 7:219-224 (2003).
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L. Cyrus, review of Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language
Perspective, M. Fried and J.-O. Östman, John Benjamins
(2004).
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M. Hoey, Lexical priming and the properties of text,
385-412,
in Corpora and discourse, A. Partington, J. Morley, and
L. Haarman, eds., Peter Lang (2004).
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V. Quochi, review of Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language
Perspective, M. Fried and J.-O. Östman, John Benjamins
(2004).
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