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Spring 2012 Schedule

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April 3 -- William Schuler presenting
Pearl, L. and Goldwater, S. (forthcoming - updated 12/1/11).
Statistical Learning, Inductive Bias, and Bayesian Inference in Language Acquisition, In J. Lidz, W. Snyder, and C. Pater (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics.

April 10 -- Peter Culicover presenting
Pearl, L., and Lidz, J. (2009)
When domain general learning fails and when it succeeds: Identifying the contribution of domain specificity, Language Learning and Development, 5(4), 235-265.
Pearl, L. and Mis, B. (2012)
Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: The case of anaphoric “one.” Cognitive Science 33(2). 287-300

April 17 -- Abby Walker presenting
Cutler and Clifton 1999
Comprehending spoken language: A blueprint of the listener.

April 24 -- Kodi Weatherholtz presenting
Norris, D., Cutler, A., McQueen, J., and Butterfield, S. (2006)
Phonological and conceptual activation in speech comprehension. Cognitive Psychology 53 (2006) 146–193.

May 1 -- Peter Culicover and Marten van Schijndel presenting
Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J.B., Gibson, E., and Regier, T. (2010)
How recursive is language? A Bayesian exploration. In H. van der Hulst (ed.) Recursion and human language. Mouton: DeGruyter: 159-175.
Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J.B., and Regier, T. (2011)
The learnability of abstract syntactic principles. Cognition 118(3): 306-338.

May 8 -- Mike White presenting
Kwiatkowski, Tom, Luke Zettelmoyer, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman. (2011)
Lexical generalization in CCG grammar induction for semantic parsing. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

May 15 -- Mike Phelan presenting
Pearl, L. (2011).
When unbiased probabilistic learning is not enough: Acquiring a parametric system of metrical phonology. Language Acquisition, 18(2), 87-120.

May 22 -- Peter Culicover presenting
Pearl, L. & Sprouse, J. (forthcoming - updated 2/1/12).
Computational Models of Acquisition for Islands, In J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (eds), Experimental Syntax and Islands Effects. Cambridge University Press.

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