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