LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

4.00 points · University catalogue

Prerequisites: PSYC BC1001 and one of the following: PSYC W2240, PSYC BC1129 , or LING UN1101. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Examines the acquisition of a first language by children, from babbling and first words to complex sentence structure and wider communicative competence. Signed and spoken languages, cross-linguistic variation and universalities, language genesis and change, and acquisition by atypical populations will be discussed.