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infant dnd
Roll for a child in a context. |
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lang dev final project
Replicate an experiment, analyze child language data, or design a conceptual game. |
| Homeworks & Handouts | |
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perusall assignments
Sample collaborative annotation assignments. |
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perceptual dialectology
Map-drawing task for region of small-group's choosing, with follow-up prompts inspired by Preston, D. |
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linguistic self-portraits
Color-coded to reflect individuals' repertoires of languages, dialects, features...plus paired interview guide. |
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design features checklist
Students evaluate an expressive system of their choosing with respect to Hockett's Design Features. |
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alien language
Students evaluate an alien language with respect to properties of human languages. |
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universalism mini-quiz
Languages Nitwit and Blubber carve up the world of color differently. |
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Eve mini-lab
Students identify child language acquisition concepts in an excerpt from the Brown corpus. |
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child language mini-lab
Students infer (partial) word meanings and morphosyntactic errors in a sample of their choosing. |
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(family) language portraits
Template to collect family language histories and environments. |
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phillablez
Fillable templates for distilling empirical research, inspired by the Philz Coffee app. |
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dev intro survey
Introductory survey for Developmental Psychology classes online or in person. |
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daily check-in
Discussion groups assess and report on their level of certainty with course material. |
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exam question generation
Discussion groups generate questions to be considered for the exam. |
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additional resources
Curated links to linguistic, developmental resources for students. |
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infographic rubric
Rubric for grading infographic assignments (student example). |
| Activities & Demos | |
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tangrams
Clarkian task where Director and (occluded) Matcher coordinate to reproduce tangram shapes. |
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personae charades
"Party" (in-class) game where students act out and guess sociolinguistic personae. |
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aces game
Role-playing game teaches small groups about adverse childhood experiences and biological sensitivity to context. |
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building an empirical argument
Slides on how to identify your hypothesis and the literature you need to support it. |
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fast mapping
Simple in-class demonstration of fast mapping and novel word extension. |
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slow mapping
children infer the boundaries of adult color categories for diverse global languages. |
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human simulation paradigm
Demonstration of syntactic bootstrapping and the human simulation paradigm. |
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cross-situational word-learning
Short demonstration suitable for museums or mobile science outreach. |
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the box project
Short in-class demonstration of black box metaphor for cognitive science, adapted from Hardcastle & Slater (2014). |
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language & culture
Informal survey to solicit student intuitions about relation between language and cultural identity. |
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research toys
Word-learning and numberline "research toy" interpretation guides. |
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age of acquisition norms
AoA estimates according to archived M-CDIs (via Wordbank; accessed 2016), versus Kuperman et al. (2012). |
| Reading & Inspiration | |
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William Labov on Linguistics
How I Got Into Linguistics, and What I Got Out of It. |
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Toni Morrison on language
1993 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. |
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Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang
Sci-fi linguistic relativity. |
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I CAN SPEAK, by George Saunders
What if babies could say what we wanted to hear, sooner. |
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Overture to dev psych, annotated
Kenneth Kaye (1982) on the first two years; 'baby labs' in The New Yorker |
| …"For" "Children" | |
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The Invisible Alphabet
Basically Why It's Hard to Label Our Concepts, illustrated. |
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Knuffle Bunny
The frustration of being pre-linguistic. |
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They All Saw a Cat
Perspective-taking and concepts. |
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A Hole is to Dig
Early semantics and teleological reasoning. |
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We are in a Book!
Existential explosion. |
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P is for Pterodactyl
English orthography is pteroble. |
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There
Deixis across time and space! |
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Runny Babbit
Spoonerisms. |