LING 444 - First Language Development

Credit(s): 3

FIRST LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Component: Lecture
Explores how humans acquire a language in infancy: innate versus environmental factors; the development of grammatical competence and its relation to cognitive and communicative development; cultural and societal influences; development disorders.
Repeatable for Credit: N Allowed Units: 3 Multiple Term Enrollment: N Grading Basis: Student Option

PREREQ: LING 101.

Course Typically Offered: Spring

General Education Objectives:
GE1A: Read Critically GE1B: Analyze Arguments and Information GE1C: Engage in Constructive Ideation GE2A: Communicate Effectively in Writing GE2B: Communicate Orally GE5A: Reason Quantitatively GE5B: Reason Computationally GE5C: Reason Scientifically