Class #3: Language Development

A lot of action coming up! It's hard to believe yet another week is coming to a close. Here's what's up for our 10AM morning class tomorrow:

We are privileged to have Patricia Brooks join our group to discuss language formation. Here are a few of her publications:

• Phonological priming in children's picture naming
• Pervasiveness of shallow processing (scroll down 2/3 of page to article and click on .pdf link)
  
• Diminutives provide multiple benefits for language acquisition

Even if you don't think you will be pursuing a career in this field, we all know people who live in a family with an autistic child, or children with other speech impairments. My sister has a two year old son, and I am always curious to try to figure out how he is processing the language he hears around him. So think about these kinds of language issues for tomorrow's class, and please try to have some questions ready for her.

As for last week's class, I have uploaded three questions about sampling techniques to each of your wiki pages. You don't have to knock yourself out on answering the questions, just reflect upon what you heard in last week's class, and think about how you might apply sampling techniques in the career you are considering pursuing. A paragraph for each answer will be sufficient. Remember, you are expected to write a report at the end of your internship, and the answers you upload to your wiki page now will make it much easier to produce your report at the end of the summer.

Further, there hasn't been any movement on the Trinity Cemetery wiki page. Again, you know more about those tombstones than pretty much everyone else on Earth! I know there will be people who will want to know about your findings, and if you don't publish them, no one will ever know. If each of you could please write a few sentences about the procedure, or calculations, or reflections, the page will be done in no time. Feel free to edit other students' text if you feel it is inaccurate or missing an important detail. Okay?

Finally, next Monday (August 10) at 10 AM, we will be meeting with Dr. Tushar J. Makadia. We will discuss what that class will consist of tomorrow.

see ya!