Readings for the Presentation:


Presentations are to be done in groups of two. So create groups of two, select the paper your group wants to present and send email to hk@cse.iitk.ac.in. Papers will be allotted on first-come basis.


  1. Lila Gleitman, “Verb Meanings”, Altmann, Gerry T M (ed.), Psycholinguistics: Critical Concepts in Psychology Vol.IV, Routledge, 2002.

  2. Bates and Goodman, “Emergence of Grammar from the Lexicon”, Altmann, Gerry T M (ed.).

  3. S Pinker, “Words and Rules”,Lingua, 106, 219-242, 1998.

  4. Rumelhart and McClelland, “On learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs”, Altmann, Gerry T M (ed.).

  5. Ann Peters, “Strategies in the Acquisition of Syntax”, Fletcher, Paul and Brian MacWhinney (eds.), The Handbook of Child Language, Blackwell, 1995.

  6. Eisele, J. and Dorothy Aram, “Lexical and Grammatical Development in Children with Early Hemisphere Damage”, Fletcher, Paul and Brian MacWhinney (eds.).

  7. Borer and Wexler, “Maturation of Syntax”, Roeper T and E Williams (eds.) Parameter Setting, Foris, 1987.

  8. S Pinker, “Rules of Language”, Altmann, Gerry T M (ed.).

  9. Kim Plunkett, “Connectionism and LA”, in Fletcher an MacWhinney, eds.

  10. S Pinker, “On Language and Connectionism: Analysis of a PDP Model” in the book is available on the Cognet site “Connections and Symbols” S Pinker, J Mehler (eds) –

  11. J A Fodor, Z W Pylyshyn, “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture”, same book as 10 above.

  12. James Hurford, “Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device”, Lingua, 77, 187-222, 1989. (PKKL).

  13. James Hurford, “The evolution of the critical period for language acquisition”, Cognition, 40, 159-201,1991.(PKKL).

  14. S Harnad, “ The symbol grounding problem”, Physica D, 42,335-346, 1990.

  15. EM Gold, “Language identification in the limit”, Inf. & Contr.,10,447-474, 1999.(PKKL).

  16. BH Bichakjian, “Language Evolution and the complexity criterion”.

  17. LR Nagles, “Form is easy, meaning is hard: resolving a paradox in early child language”, Cognition, 86, 156-199, 2002.

  18. M Tomasello, “Do young children have adult syntactic competence?”,Cognition, 74, 209-253, 2000.

  19. K Smith et al., “Complex Systems in Language evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure”.

  20. M MacSweeny et al., “Neural systems underlying BSL and audi-visual English processing in native users”, Brain, 125, 1583-1593, 2002.


PKKL: PK Kelkar Library (Central Library).

Copies of papers not available in PKKL or online will be available with the course TA Prashant Sharma.