{"id":1701,"date":"2010-09-07T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2010-09-06T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:55:37","slug":"course-announcement-24-9499-601-language-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/09\/07\/course-announcement-24-9499-601-language-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Course announcement: 24.949\/9.601 Language Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>\t24.949\/9.601 Graduate Language Acquisition this Fall<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nInstructor: Ken Wexler<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nMondays 11 to 2, Linguistics seminar room<\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><LI> Lecture 1: Foundational Intro, the role of input, learning, nature of UG and development.<\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI>Lectures 2-4: The basic properties of early clause structure,  finiteness, parameters of clauses, INFL, C, case, agreement, head-movement, raising of subjects,  knowledge of morphology, necessity of copulas\/aux, why are they omitted?,  null-subjects, clitics, modality\/negation, movement and its motivations. All of this developmental. Are the classical linguistic-theory (biolinguistic)  approaches right, or can we get more than we thought from environmental\/computational difficulties (e.g. Yang&#8217;s recent papers; in particular we should look at Legate and Yang and its critics).<\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI>Lecture 5: Deviance <\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI>Lectures 6,7: Argument-chains, phases, the role of derivation by phase,  movement, passives, raising, unaccusatives, clefts, specificational sentences,  tough-movement, control (complement and adjunct), control with promise, etc. &#8220;Smuggling&#8221; in theory and its relation to development and to empty operators, etc (see also lecture 8).<\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI>Lecture 8: Wh-Movement in Acquisition, questions, relative clauses,  A-bar movement in general, etc.  <\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI>Lecture 9\/10\/11: Semantics of determiners, quantification, scope, maximality, semantics of free relatives, information structure, relation to Theory of Mind experiments,   Scalar Implicatures.<\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI>Lecture 12: Binding Theory. <\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.949\/9.601 Graduate Language Acquisition this Fall Instructor: Ken Wexler Mondays 11 to 2, Linguistics seminar room Lecture 1: Foundational Intro, the role of input, learning, nature of UG and development. Lectures 2-4: The basic properties of early clause structure, finiteness, parameters of clauses, INFL, C, case, agreement, head-movement, raising of subjects, knowledge of morphology, necessity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}