Undergraduate - UnitATS3679 - Psycholinguistics and child language acquisition

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Linguistics
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Anna Margetts

Notes

Previously coded LIN3430

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.

Outcomes

As for ATS2679 and in addition a deeper understanding of the theoretical issues involved in the study of psycholinguistics and child language acquisition.