Indicated on this Syllabus are class meetings and topics to be discussed as well as due dates for position papers, take-home, and learning question research. We will assign Discussion Leaders to meetings and additional article responsibilities when we meet.
 

Class Meeting     Topic

August 22, 29, September 5
Unit 1
What is language?
How is it studied?
Language - thought relationships

Due September 5: Position paper on What is Language?

September 12
Unit 2
Word processing - lexical access, processing and word recognition.
Modularity and Context Effects
 
September 19, 26, October 3
Unit 3
Sentence Processing - structural analyses, functional analyses, production
Literal vs. Figurative Meanings
Methods in studying sentence processing load

Due October 10: Position paper on issues in word and sentence processing.

October 10, 17, 24, 31
Unit 4
Discourse - comprehension, inferences, computational models, conversation, learning from text, and discourses for learning

November 7
Unit 5
Language Acquisition

November 7: Take-home distributed

Due November 14 - Take Home. No class meeting.

November 21, 28
Unit 6
Student Presentations on learning question research.

Due December 5 - Learning Question Research Paper