ED 726 - Developmental Psycholinguistics

3 Credit(s)

The scope of the course includes theories of language development and their practical applications to the practice of teaching. Theoretical traditions are contrasted. Emphasis is placed on recent developments in the study of language-i.e., semantic acquisition, natural language theories, pragmatics, bidialectalism and bilingualism, mother-child interaction, discourse analysis, and conversational implicature. A methodological study of language is a requirement of the course.
Prerequisite(s): ED 507.