Please post your comments on the readings for Monday Nov. 18th and Wednesday Nov. 20th and the class discussion here.

Please post your comments on the classes by Elliott Moreton and Sharon Peperkamp and any other of the slew of talks we’ve had recently on phonological learning (at Phonology 2013, and also Adam Albright’s colloquium).

Here‘s the Nieuwenhuis et al. 2011 Nature Neuroscience paper that Sharon and I were talking about, which shows that a statistical error is surprisingly common.

Sharon Peperkamp’s Phonology 2013 plenary abstract is now available here (Sunday Nov. 10, 9 am, Herter auditorium).

Here are some relatively straightforward examples, courtesy of Adrian Staubs, of why language is not “beads on a string”. In phonology, see the Daland et al. paper we read, Iris Berent’s work, long-distance dependencies, the prosodic hierarchy, etc.

“I’ve always been partial to the old Crain and Nakayama examples from yes-no question formation:

The boy is riding the bike.
Is the boy riding the bike?
The boy who is my neighbor is riding the bike.
*Is the boy who my neighbor is riding the bike?

Also (though the facts are complicated) I sometimes find people have a real ‘aha’ moment with wanna-contraction:

Who do you want to visit?
Who do you wanna visit?
Who do you want to visit Steve?
*Who do you wanna visit Steve?”

http://whisc.blogspot.com/2013/10/adam-albright-gives-colloq-on-friday.html

Please post your comments on the class and/or readings for October 23rd here.

Please post your comments and questions on the class Monday October 21st here.

Post your comments on the papers and presentations from 10/15 and 10/16 here.

Please post your comments on multiple systems models, and more generally on the relationship between memory and concept learning, here (related to class 10/7).