Course: Language Acquisition (2010-2011) List of readings Part I Guasti, M. T. (2004). Language Acquisition. The growth of grammar. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Lidz, J. & Musolino, J. (2002). Children's command of quantification. Cognition, 84, 113-154. Lidz, J. & Musolino, J. (2003). Continuity in Linguistic Development: The Scope of Syntax and the Syntax of Scope. ms, Northwestern University, USA, 1-44. Musolino, J. & Lidz, J. (2009). The scope of isomorphism: Turning adults into children. Language Acquisition, 11.4, 277-291 Gualmini, A. (2001). The unbearable lightness of scalar implicatures. ms. University of Maryland, USA. Noveck, I. A. (2001). When children are more logical than adults: Investigations of scalar implicature. Cognition, 78, 165-188. Noveck, I. A. & Posada, A. (2003). Characterizing the time course of an implicature: An evoked potentials study. Brain and Language, 85, 203-210. Part II Alishahi, A. (in press). Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, Morgan & Claypool. Brent, M. R. (1999). Speech segmentation and word discovery: a computational perspective. Trends in Cognitive Science, 3:8, 294-301. Frank, M. C., Goodman, N. D., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2009). Using speakers' referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning. Psychological Science, 20, 579-585. Parisien C., Fazly A., & Stevenson S. (2008). An incremental Bayesian model for learning syntactic categories. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. Jones G., Gobet F., & Pine J. M. (2000). A Process Model of Children's Early Verb Use. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 723-728. Chang N. & Gurevich O. (2004). Context-driven construction learning. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.