Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces students to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in the field. This course also explains why these research findings are important and what they tell us about how children acquire language; more specifically how they acquire the sounds, the meaning of words, the rules of words' derivation and sentence formation.
Key features in this course include:
Cross-linguistic analysis of how language acquisition differs between languages
How multilingual children acquire several languages at once