This course is designed to introduce students to theories that explain how and when children
achieve proficiency in the language they are exposed to without receiving deliberate instruction
in the rules of language. Students will be required to design and administer simple
experiments to test children‘s knowledge of aspects of the grammar of their language. Topics
include: linguistics and language acquisition, phonological acquisition, morphological
development and innovation, acquisition of syntax, syntactic and semantic development,
cognition, environment and language learning.