A case for iterative morphophonological learning: the morpheme-boundedness of Arabic OCP Acquisition research shows that the timelines of early phonotactic learning and morphological learning largely overlap. This conflicts with a common simplification in computational modeling of phonological learning, where phonotactic generalizations are learned from input with complete morphological information. I demonstrate a case of discrepancy...

A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.

Students enrolled in the Field Methods course will present their final research projects during a mini-conference open to members of the department and interested members of the community.

Title: How children discover the difference between know and think Abstract: Linguistic input is not directly intended to support language acquisition, but instead comes from ordinary conversations where speakers try to achieve practical goals. Despite this, children make rapid progress with word learning, managing to strip away layers of contextual information to discern subtle semantic...

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