| week | Topic | Key Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the Course: Experimental Methods, Constraints on Language, Mechanical Turk, R/statistics | Problem set 1 handed out |
| 2 | Quantitative Methods: Quantitative Syntax, Descriptive Statistics and Plotting | |
| 3 | Language as Communication, Part 1 |
Problem set 1 due Problem set 2 handed out Projects handed out |
| 4 | Language as Communication, Part 2 |
Problem set 2 due Problem set 3 handed out |
| 5 | Language Processing Over a Noisy Channel, Part 1 | |
| 6 | Language Processing Over a Noisy Channel, Part 2 |
Problem set 4 due Paper 1 draft 1 due |
| 7 | What Makes a Long-Distance Extraction Unacceptable? | |
| 8 | No class during spring break | |
| 9 | Pragmatics: The Use of Referring Expressions | Paper 1 draft 2 due — optional resubmission |
| 10 | The On-Line Computation of Pragmatic Information, Student Presentations of Projects | |
| 11 | Student Presentations of Projects | |
| 12 | The Foreign Language Effect: Thinking in a Froeign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases | |
| 13 | Syntactic Priming | Paper 3 due |
| 14 | Color Language, Help with Projects and Oral Presentations | |
| 15 | Language and Thought: Number | |
| 16 | Culture and Language: Recursion | Final Paper Due |