First Language Acquisition

By Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, J. Mugdan, S. Skopeteas, Wolfgang Kesselheim. The Study of Language, 2004

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Child language is different from adult language. Children might call everything that is round and flat a moon or they might say 'goed' instead of 'went' for the past tense of 'go'. Why do children make these mistakes? And how do they eventually learn the correct forms? This course provides an introduction to some central topics in child language research, focusing on grammatical development. Students will have the opportunity to work with transcripts of computerized child language data and to write an empirical research paper.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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