TENTATIVE program


  1. Organization, Inspiration
    Date: 14 Sept.
    Presentation: none
    Literature: none
  2. An Example: Segmentation
    Date: 19 Sept.
    Presentation: John Nerbonne
    Literature: Brent & Cartwright (1996)
  3. Linguistic and Psychological Fundamentals
    Date: 26 Sept.
    Presentation: Terence van Zoelen
    Literature: Crystal 230-43;Lg.Files 261-66; 270-74; Wikipedia?
  4. Poverty of the Stimulus
    Date: 28 Sept.
    Presentation: Tim Dorscheidt
    Literature: Pullum, Clark
  5. Statistical Sensitivity
    Date: 3 Oct.
    Presentation: Nicola Valchev
    Literature: Mintz, Newport
  6. Phonotactics
    Date: 5 Oct
    Presentation: John Nerbonne
    Literature: Tjong Kim Sang (Clin '95), Stoianov
  7. Minimal Generalization
    Date: 10 Oct
    Presentation: Bart Cramer
    Literature: Albright & Hayes
  8. Dense Corpora, Functionalism
    Date: 12 Oct.
    Presentation: Rasmus Steinkrauss
    Literature: Tomasello
  9. Memory-Based Learning
    Date: 17 Oct
    Presentation: ?
    Literature: Daelemans et al.
  10. Project Discussion
    Date: 19 Oct
    Presentation: John Nerbonne
    Literature: none
  11. Reading Week
    12. Date: 23-27 Oct.
  12. Student project
    Date: 2 Nov
    Presentation: plenum
    Literature: to be announced