Spring 2019
ARTICLES TO BE PRESENTED AND DISCUSSED IN THE SECOND CLASS
Culbertson, J. (2012). Typological universals as reflections of biased learning: Evidence from artificial language learning. Language and Linguistics Compass, 6(5), 310-329.
Lidz, J., & Gagliardi, A. (2015). How nature meets nurture: Universal grammar and statistical learning. Annu. Rev. Linguist., 1(1), 333-353.
Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Regier, T. (2011). The learnability of abstract syntactic principles. Cognition, 118(3), 306-338.
Background readings
A. Lidz, Waxman & Freedman, 2003, "What infants know about syntax but couldn’t have learned: experimental evidence for syntactic structure at 18 months", Cognition 89: Paper and replies
Pearl & Lidz 2009, When Domain-General Learning Fails and When It Succeeds: Identifying the Contribution of Domain Specificity
Pearl & Sprouse, Syntactic Islands and Universal Grammar: A computational model of the acquisition of constraints on long-distance dependencies
Viau & Lidz, 2011, Selective learning in the acquisition of Kannada ditransitives, Language 87(4), p. 679-714
Sprouse, Wagers & Phillips, A test of the relation between working memory capacity and syntactic island effects, published in Language 88.1 (2012): 82-123.
Perfors, Amy, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Terry Regier 2011. .The learnability of abstract syntactic principles. Cognition 118, no. 3 (2011): 306-338
Perfors, Amy, 2012, Bayesian Models of Cognition: What's Built in After All?, Philosophy Compass 7/2 (2012): 127–138, 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00467.x
[Références:
A. Bonatti, L. L., Pena, M., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2005). Linguistic Constraints on Statistical Computations The Role of Consonants and Vowels in Continuous Speech Processing. Psychological Science, 16(6), 451-459.
B. Keidel, J. L., Jenison, R. L., Kluender, K. R., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2007). Does grammar constrain statistical learning? Commentary on Bonatti, Peña, Nespor, and Mehler (2005). Psychological Science, 18(10), 922-923.
C. Bonatti, L. L., Peña, M., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2007). On consonants, vowels, chickens, and eggs. Psychological Science, 18(10), 924-925.]
Chapter 2 of Lappin & Clark 2010 [From Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus]
Bickerton 1984, The language bioprogram hypothesis BBS, 7, 173-221
Cowie, 1997, The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition [A philosophical criticism of the PoS argument]
Berwick, Pietroski, Yankama & Chomsky 2011, Poverty of the stimulus revisited