Week 1 Sept 8-10
Introduction, Syllabus
Read: Chapter 1 Gass.Selinker
Handout: week 1 intro (slides)
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Week 2 Sept 15-17
First language acquisition
Handout: week 2
Read: Chapter 2 G&S, Cattell
Assignment: answer question 3 p.16 of G&S
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Week 3 Sept 22-24
The critical period hypothesis
Read: Chapter 2 of Ortega
Handout: First language acquisition
To do: hw2
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Week 4 Sept 29
Transfer and access
Read: White (2000)
Liu (2001) (optional)
Oct 1
Chapter 6 Gass & Selinker
Slides: pdf , powerpoint
To do: Hk3
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Week 5: Transfer
Oct 6: Adverb placement
Read: White (1991)
Slides: week5a
Oct 8: Binding theory, null subjects
Assignment:
Go to the website:
http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php
Pick one language and write the challenges it will represent:
L1 X to L2 English: do what we did in class and note the substitution the non-native speaker is making, look at the phonemic inventory of that language to try to explain the observed phenomenon.
L1 English to L2 X: Imagine what challenges it would represent to acquire X for a native of English by looking at the phonemic inventory of that language.
Chose a language you don’t speak!
Week 6 Oct 15 Midterm in class
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Week 7 : Transfer or not transfer (the end)
Oct 20-22: L2 Phonology
Read Flege (1987) for Tuesday
Read: Hayes-Harb & Masuda (2008) for Thursday
Slides: week7
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Week 8 Oct 27-29 Cognition
Read: Ortega-chap5
And Psychology of Language (read pp.130 to 141, pp. 150-155, 158-172)
There is a workshop on: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Agreement at UMass
The departments of Linguistics and Psychology are hosting a workshop on Agreement Thursday and Friday of this week (Oct. 29 and 30). Thursday’s talks are on “Agreement and Linear Order,” and Friday’s on “Experimental and theoretical approaches.” Thursday’s talks are in ILC N400 and Friday’s talks are in ILS S211.
For a schedule and more information, go here.
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Week 9 Nov 3-5
Psycholinguistic in SLA research
Read: Marinis (2000), you don’t have to read section IV.
Homework: Following the workshop on Agreement Oct 29-30, choose one talk. Summarize and discuss for Nov 5 (one page).
[UUSLAW on Saturday, Nov 7th: schedule]
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Week 10 Nov 10-12
Psycholinguistics, slides
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Week 11 Nov 17-19 Student presentations (papers are linked to names)
Comments go there
Nov 17 Myles
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Week 12 Student presentations
Nov 24: Anastasia
Comments go there
Thanksgiving break: no class on Thursday, Nov 26
Week 13 Student presentations
Dec 1: Alena
Comments go there
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Week 14 Student presentations
Comments go there
Dec 10: Kirk + Wrap-up
Please post here the topic you chose for your presentation. Thanks.
I’m presenting on the acquisition of telicity in L2 Russian.
bevorarosa wrote: Presenting on the effects of bilingualism on third language acquisition
I’ll be presenting on L1 inhibition during L2 immersion
I’ll be presenting on stages in the acquisition of L2 vocabulary.
On Tuesday I’ll be talking about the roles of structural position and equivalence classification in the acquisition of Spanish phonology by L1 English speakers.
My presentation will be on the topic of L2 fossilization
My presentation will be on the effects on L1 during early acquisition of L2: Speech changes in Spanish at first English contact.
I’ll be presenting on context effects in the processing of phonolexical ambiguity in L2