Cross-listed: ASL/LIN 208, COG/PSY 259
Prerequisites: BCS 152 or LIN 110
Offered: Spring (biennial)
A basic introduction to children's language development, including the acquisition of phonology, syntax, and semantics.
The course focuses on the acquisition of a first language by young children, comparing the acquisition of a variety of spoken
and signed languages to find possible universal principles of language learning.
Students taking this course should have a background in at least one of the fields pertinent to the material of the course:
language structure, psycholinguistics, or developmental psychology.
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