Child Language Development (formerly offered as CHLD 30)

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This course will examine communicative and linguistic development of children, with emphasis upon development of oral language at various levels: vocabulary, sentences, discourse structures, and metalinguistic awareness. Children's knowledge of phonology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics will be addressed, with attention to individual, gender, and cultural differences and special issues such as bilingualism. Empirical descriptions and contrastive theoretical approaches to language development will be covered.