Language Acquisition

Undergraduate

An introduction to language acquisition, a subfield of linguistics whose goal is to understand how humans acquire the ability to speak and understand a language, a highly complex task that is routinely and seemingly effortlessly accomplished by competent (native) speakers of the language in the first few years of life and without explicit instruction. Focusing on first, or native, language acquisition, this course covers selected topics in core areas of linguistic knowledge, including the lexicon (words), sentence structure, meaning composition, and pragmatics, from a developmental perspective. One of (i) Introduction to Linguistics (ii) Cognitive Science of Language SO Th 9:25am-11:20am