Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Language Development (Cecile McKee)/Course description

Course description
Listed in Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech/Language/Hearing Sciences, this course concerns child language. We’ll organize the details by the linguistic units involved (e.g., sounds, words, sentences), and by their typical timeline (e.g., at birth, by six months, between 2;0 and 2;8). Three broad issues from the cognitive sciences inform our study of language development: nature and nurture, modularity, and human uniqueness. Another theme is methodological. We’ll emphasize how one gathers and interprets language data from children. This is challenging because the youngest are limited in the types of responses they can give, and development is a moving target.

One of several options for students in the course, this Wikipedia project adopts the article language acquisition in order to apply the course content to a real-world function and simultaneously improve the article.

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