Course Descriptions

LING 437/537: First Language Acquisition


Instructor

Lynn Santelmann

Course Number and Title

LING 437/537: First Language Acquisition

Course Description

LING 437/537: First Language Acquisition
This course will examine general issues in first language acquisition, focusing on infancy and the preschool
years.

Topics to be covered include: communication in infancy, word learning, the development of sound
patterns, the development of sentence structure, the development of social language skills, atypical
language development and language disorders, and the development of language in the early school years.

 

Prerequisites
LING 390

 

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Updated: 20-Feb-2009