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Language Acquisition

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States24.904
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2022English
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This course is an introduction to language acquisition, a subfield of linguistics whose goal is to understand how humans acquire the ability to speak and understand a language—a highly complex task that is routinely and seemingly effortlessly accomplished by competent (native) speakers of the language in the first few years of life and without explicit instruction.

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