October+1st

Ch. 1 PPT continued... - creating stories (also known as lying) - this is a complex cognitive skill - shows imagination - correct "phrase order", not "word order" - learn registers (speaking to adults vs. speaking to children) - Phil speaks like an impolite, young Japanese girl. - youtube "Bananarama" (or go here: [] ) - learn ambiguity - more registers - hasn't made its way into ESL yet (because it's hard) - Jackendorf (sp?) - syntactocentricism (sp?) - frequency and saliency - Latent-semantic analysis (LSA) - how words are associated - [|here], [|here], and [|here]. For an LSA "tool" look on [|this well-established, credible website].
 * Preschool Years**
 * School Years**
 * Cognitivism**
 * Connectionism**

Travis did a wonderful job presenting the Bates and MacWhinney (1987) article. Good job, Travis!