Teaching

Picture of Ailis Cournane lecturing

2023-2024

  • Spring 2024, on sabbatical 
  • Fall 2023
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition
    • LING UA 3/PSYCH UA 27 Language & Mind (co-taught with Brian McElree)

2022-2023

  • Spring
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition
    • LING GA 2610 Graduate Seminar in Language Acquisition: Acquisition of Variation
  •  Fall:
    • LING UA 3/PSYCH UA 27 Language & Mind (co-taught with Brian McElree)
    • Graduate Statistics for Linguistics (Coordinator; supervise online course)

2021-2022

  • Spring
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition
  •  Fall:
    • LING UA 3/PSYCH UA 27 Language & Mind (co-taught with Brian McElree)
    • LING GA 3320 Graduate Seminar in Experimental Syntax (co-taught with Tal Linzen)

2020-2021

  • Lecture at Ghent University, Belgium. Discovering Linguistics/Linguistic Discoveries Series. December 14. Modal verbs in language development and language change. [Ghent_Cournane]
  •  Spring:
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition
    • LING GA 2610 Graduate Seminar in Language Acquisition: Child Language and Language Change 
  •  Fall:
    • LING UA 3/PSYCH UA 27 Language & Mind (co-taught with Brian McElree)

2019-2020

  •  Spring:
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition
  •  Fall:
    • Goddard Fellowship (Teaching Leave)

2018-2019

  •  Spring:
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition
  •  Fall:
    • LING UA 3/PSYCH UA 27 Language & Mind (co-taught with Brian McElree)
    • LING GA 3340 Graduate Seminar in Syntax: Syntactic Acquisition, A-movement (co-taught with Stephanie Harves)

2017-2018

  •  Spring:
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition
    • LING GA 3510 Graduate Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Language Change (co-taught with Laurel MacKenzie)
  •  Fall:
    • LING UA 3/PSYCH UA 27 Language & Mind (co-taught with Brian McElree)
    • LING GA 3340 Graduate Seminar in Semantics: Experimental Semantics (co-taught with Lucas Champollion)

2016-2017

  • Spring:
    • LING UA 59/PSYCH UA 300 First Language Acquisition (new course at NYU Linguistics)
    • LING GA 2610 Graduate Seminar in Language Acquisition: Modals and Evidentials (new course at NYU Linguistics)
  •  Fall:
    • LING UA 3/PSYCH UA 27 Language & Mind (co-taught with Brian McElree)

2016 (University of Mannheim, Germany)

  • Spring:
    • Graduate Seminar in Language & Mind
    • Undergraduate Seminar in First Language Acquisition

2013-15 (University of Toronto, Canada)

  • Summer 2015
    • First Language Acquisition
  • Spring 2015
    • First Language Acquisition
  • Summer 2014
    • First Language Acquisition
  • Spring 2014
    • First Language Acquisition
  • Summer 2013
    • First Language Acquisition