LIN3430 - Psycholinguistics and child language acquisition
6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Dr Anna Margetts
Offered
Not offered in 2009
Synopsis
The first part of the unit traces the development of child language from pre-speech to the later stages of acquisition, including the development of communicative competence. It examines the development of the child's phonological, syntactic, morphological and semantic system and attempts to account for this development by considering various linguistic models and theories. The second part of the unit focuses on the comprehension and production of speech. Experimental evidence are examined in order to determine the psychological validity of the various models and theories which have been proposed to describe the process involved in comprehending and producing speech.
Objectives
As for LIN2430 and in addition a deeper understanding of the theoretical issues involved in the study of psycholinguistics and child language acquisition.
Assessment
Oral presentation and class participation: 20%
Written work: 80%
Contact hours
2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week
Prerequisites
A second-year sequence in Linguistics.