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Language Acquisition I

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States24.949
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2020English
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This course focuses on the process by which native speakers of a language acquire the ability to speak and understand that language. 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.

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