2008 AM Typical and Atypical Language Development

• Time: Mo 12-14
• Place: A10-1-121a
• Lecturer: Michael Treichler

June 9th: Methods in Linguistics/Working with Empirical Data

• As a preparation for your researches for posters or portfolios, we will analyze some transcripts from the CHILDES database.
• In order to demonstrate how you formulate hypotheses and evaluate them on empirical data extracted from CHILDES (or other sources), I will explain to you what I did in my own Magister Thesis.

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