Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Department: Psychology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on some of the central aspects of first language acquisition. Topics include statistical learning; the use of special kinds of input modification ('motherese'); how children's grammatical, lexical-semantic, and phonological systems develop; the critical period hypothesis; and language development in the absence of a conventional model ('home sign'). Cross-list: LING 325.