Materials

Dec 14
Handout: What you learned to do, and where it's useful
Dec 12
Handout: Interpreting data: A case study
Dec 10
Handout: Interpreting data, part 2 (Florian)
Dec 5
Homework 5 and Paper 3 [HW5 due Dec 14; P3 due by midnight on Dec 21]
Nov 30
Handout: Framing
Nov 19
Assignment 4: Starting the pilot study [due Nov 28]
Nov 14
Group work: Focus
Handout: Introduction to focus
And check out Malcom Gladwell's New Yorker article on criminal profiling
Nov 9
Florian's notes and handouts on experimental projects
Nov 7
Handout: Results from Monday's group work
Nov 5
Group work: Properties of other kinds of ellipsis
Nov 2
Handout: Introduction to VP ellipsis
Oct 31
Handout: Fun with discourse boxes
Oct 29
Handout: Coversheet for Paper 2
Oct 26
Handout: Discourse representation
Oct 24
Group work: Questionnaires about the questionnaires for Paper 2
Oct 19
Paper 2 [due October 29]
Group work: Supplement to Homework 3
Oct 17
Handout: Information status: Old vs. new
Handout: My homework 3 (with the results of the pilot study)
Handout: A few live examples
Oct 15
Handout: Presuppositions: Negation and questions
Pilot study: The small world hypothesis [version 1; version 2]
Oct 12
Handout: Analyzing and interpreting data (Florian)
Handout: Group work summary and notes (Florian)
Assignment 3 [due Oct 19]
Oct 10
Handout: Experiment design (Florian)
Group work: On experiment design (Florian)
Oct 9
Handout: Introduction to experiments (Florian)
Oct 3
Handout: Some general thoughts on Paper 1
Handout: Group work data
Pilot study: Embedding [version 1; version 2; results]
Oct 1
Group work: Presupposing
Handout: Introduction to presuppositions
Sep 28
Handout: Coversheet for Paper 1
Sep 26
Handout: Ways of failing to live up to the maxims
Syllabus addendum: Extra credit, and making up for missed work
Sep 24
Handout: Chris's (partial) Paper 1
Handout: Some pragmatic generalizations (useful for Paper 1)
Sep 19
Handout: Chris's Assignment 2 (a guide, and useful examples)
Sep 17
Handout: Conversational implicatures
Group work: Life with and without the maxims
Sep 14
Assignment 2 and Paper 1
Sep 10
Group work: Pragmatic enrichment: Introduction by examples
Handout: Introduction to pragmatics
Sep 7
Handout: Very brief introduction to psycholinguistics
Sep 5
Printable version of the syllabus
Daily schedule (topics tentative; due dates and quiz dates fixed)
Handout: Summary of topics
Homework 1: A brief survey