Syllabus

7/7/2009 -- Psycholinguistic accounts of processing an communicative efficiency (Availability, Alignment, Domain Minimization, Ambiguity Avoidance, and Uniform Information Density)

7/8/2009 -- You are highly encouraged to attend the [link: evening tutorial on logistic regression] (Note: different time & location: TBA, 7-9:30pm)

7/9/2009 -- An introduction to TGrep2: a syntactic search software [laptop highly company encouraged]

7/14/2009 -- The relation between psycholinguistic and other approaches (more on psycholinguistic accounts; also grammaticalization, semantic accounts, sociolinguistic accounts)

7/15/2009 -- If you're interested in the analysis of continuous corpus outcomes such as word durations, pitch accents, etc., consider attending the [link: evening tutorial on linear mixed models] (Note: different time & location: TBA, 7-9:30pm)

7/16/2009 -- An introduction to logistic regression in R [laptop highly company encouraged]

7/21/2009 -- What to do if there is (seems to be) no right corpus for your purpose? Don't panic! We discuss the process of selecting a corpus, trade-off between more available annotation and more available data, adding additional annotation, using text-corpora for syntactic searches, using the web as a corpus, and how to further enrich your corpus data base (e.g. with ngram information) .... bascially, we'll go through a bag of tricks. We will also use this class to catch up with left-overs from previous classes.

7/23/2009 -- Corpora vs. Experiments: Trade-offs (... and a bit more statistics) We'll discuss the advantages and disadvantages of corpora compared to running experiments in the lab. This will lead us to look a bit more at mixed models which provide control for individual speaker effects which make the analysis of corpus data more complicated. I hope that most of you can attend the evening tutorials, so that we can use this session to go through more advanced questions and for questions you have regarding your final projects.