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#: [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/6.s077/feldman-goldin-meadow-gleitman.pdf Beyond Herodotus: the creation of language by linguistically deprived deaf children, In A. Lock (Ed.), Action, symbol, and gesture: The emergence of language (pp.351-414). New York: Academic Press, 1978.]
#: [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/6.s077/feldman-goldin-meadow-gleitman.pdf Beyond Herodotus: the creation of language by linguistically deprived deaf children, In A. Lock (Ed.), Action, symbol, and gesture: The emergence of language (pp.351-414). New York: Academic Press, 1978.]
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# [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/6.s077/recitation8-2017.pdf The tipping point: it's the exceptions that make the rules]
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# [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/6.s077/recitation9-2017.pdf Words, words, words]

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Lecture slides by week

  1. Course overview and requirements; how honeybees learn to navigate
    Optional reading: Dyer and Dickenson, Development of compensation by honeybees.
  2. Babytalk: how do babies pick up speech, part 1
  3. Babytalk: how do babies pick up speech, part 2
  4. Babytalk and Animal talk: how do babies pick up speech, part 3; do animals talk?
  5. Reading and Response 1 Discussion (no slides)
  6. Can chimpanzees learn language?
    Optional readings:
    Teaching Language to an Ape, Scientific American, 1972
    Can an Ape Create a Sentence?, Science, 1979
    Researcher challenges conclusion that apes can learn language, NYTimes, 1979
  7. Child vs. Chimp
    Optional readings:
    Beyond Herodotus: the creation of language by linguistically deprived deaf children, In A. Lock (Ed.), Action, symbol, and gesture: The emergence of language (pp.351-414). New York: Academic Press, 1978.
  8. The tipping point: it's the exceptions that make the rules
  9. Words, words, words
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