General Plan (subject to minor changes):

1/6 (W1) Introduction: First vs. second language acquisition

Movie: The Human Language: Language Acquisition

1/8 (W1) Introduction: First vs. second language acquisition

White (1989: 1-55) (Pinker 1990)

1/10 (F) (Last Day to Add without Instructor's Written Permission)
1/13 (W2) Maternal Speech: Masataka (1992), Toda, Fogel, and Kawai (1990)
1/15 (W2) Phonetics/Phonology: Boysson-Bardies and Vihman (1991)

Prosodic cues: Fisher and Tokura (1996)

1/20 Martin Luther King Day observed - NO CLASS
1/22 (W3) Phrase structure acquisition: Mazuka (1996

Functional categories: Nakayama (1996a: 53-80)

1/24 (F) (Last Day to Drop without a W appearing on your record)
1/27 (W4) Phrase structure acquisition: Nakayama (1996a: 80-93, 1996b)
1/29 (W4) Word order and Particles: Miyata (1992), Otsu (1994a)
2/3 (W5) Word order and Particles: Otsu (1994b), Azuma (1993)
2/5 (W5) Empty pronouns: Nakayama (1996a: 97-156)
2/10 (W6) RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC AND OUTLINE DUE

2/10&11 - Lectures by Karalyn Patterson and Sachiko Matsunaga

    on lexical access (Kana and Kanji) in Japanese

2/12 (W6) Empty pronouns: Nakayama (1996a: 97-156), Kanno (1996)
2/17 (W7) Jibun: Mazuka and Lust (1994), Thomas (1991)
2/19 (W7) Jibun: Thomas (1991: 1995)
2/24 (W8) Conditions: Akatsuka & Clancy (1993) Ne: Cook (1990)
2/26 (W8) Demonstratives: Sakoda (1994)
3/3 (W9) Overview
3/5, 10, 13 (W9, 10) Paper Presentations
3/18 (Noon) Term Paper Due

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