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Language Acquisition

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States9.57J
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2001English
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Covers the major results in the study of first language acquisition concentrating on the development of linguistic structure, including sentence structure and morphology. Universal aspects of development are discussed, as well as a variety of cross-linguistic phenomena. Theories of language learning are considered, including parameter-setting and maturation.

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