Reading journal: Autumn Term, Week 8

Directed readings in Syntax

• Rizzi, L. (1990). Relativized Minimality. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. Ch.2.
• Haddican, B., A. Holmberg, H. Tanaka & G. Tsoulas (to appear). English wh-slifting as an embedded root phenomenon.

Psycholinguistics

• Ridley, M. (2006). Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters. London: Harper-Collins. Ch. 7 (Instinct).

Language Acquisition

• Bley-Vroman, R. (1989). What is the logical problem of foreign language learning. In: S. Gass & J. Schachter, eds. Linguistic perspectives on second language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–68.
• Schwartz, B.D. & R.A. Sprouse (2000). When syntactic theories evolve: Consequences for
  L2 acquisition research. In: J. Archibald, ed. Second language acquisition and linguistic theory. Malden, MA.: Blackwell, pp. 156-186.

Phonetics and Phonology

• Ladefoged, P. (2011). A course in phonetics. Boston, MA.: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. Ch. 10.

Away from the studies...

• Milan Kundera (1984).  The unbearable lightness of being. London: Faber & Faber.