Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition is a Cognitive Science class taught by Linnaea Stockall.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
Every typically developing human child learns one or more languages with remarkable rapidity (the process is mostly complete by age 5), and in almost identical ways across the huge variety of human cultures and languages. Yet linguists still struggle to even produce complete descriptions of what it is that the child learns. In this class, we'll examine what we do currently know about the nature of the human linguistic capacity. Students will have the opportunity to work directly with data and perhaps make discoveries of their own.

Learning Goals

 * Project-based
 * Presenting
 * Reading
 * Writing