This course focuses on the process by which native speakers of a language acquire the ability to speak and understand that language.

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November 9, 2022

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It covers some of the major results in the study of first-language acquisition, concentrating on morpho-syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The findings primarily come from English, but cross-linguistic differences in the phenomena of interest and corresponding differences in acquisition patterns are considered where appropriate. Of interest throughout is how these developmental data inform linguistic theory and/or learnability theory

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  • Foundations Unlimited
  • Words Unlimited
  • Syntactic Bootstrapping Unlimited
  • Early Syntax Unlimited
  • Root Infinitives Unlimited
  • Passives Unlimited
  • Unaccusatives Unlimited
  • Wh-Movement Unlimited
  • Quantifiers Unlimited
  • Numerals Unlimited

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