Lecture Notes | Language Acquisition | Linguistics and Philosophy | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Instructor

Prof. Athulya Aravind

Departments

Linguistics and Philosophy

As Taught In

Spring 2022

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Humanities
- Linguistics

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Lecture Notes

This page presents links to the PDFs of the lecture notes for 24.904 Language Acquisition.

No lecture note file exists for class 16, as that session was devoted to the midterm exam.

Class 1: Foundations

Class 2: Biological Bases of Language

Class 3: Biological Bases of Language, continued

Class 4: Word Segmentation

Class 5: Word Segmentation, continued

Class 6: Words and Their Meanings

Class 7: Words and Their Meanings, continued

Class 8: Harder Word Meanings

Class 9: Early Syntax

Class 10: Syntax: Root Infinitives

Class 11: Syntax: Root Infinitives, continued

Class 12: Passives

Class 13: Syntax: Wh-questions

Class 14: Syntax: Wh-questions, continued

Class 15: What They Don't Get Quite Right

Class 17: Syntax/Semantics: Binding

Class 18: Syntax/Semantics: Binding, continued

Class 19: Quantification

Class 20: Quantification, continued

Class 21: Exhaustivity Inferences

Class 22: Exhaustivity Inferences, continued

Class 23: Presupposition

Class 24: Presupposition, continued

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Athulya Aravind

Departments

Linguistics and Philosophy

As Taught In

Spring 2022

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Humanities
- Linguistics

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Notes

Written Assignments

Download Course

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