LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT

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Survey of research and theoretical perspectives in natural language acquisition and development in children. Discussion and examination of child language data from Spanish and other languages. Exploration of universal principles and biological aspects of language acquisition and development, the logical problem of language acquisition, infant speech perception and production, development of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and the lexicon, Universal Grammar and the language bioprogram, and child creation of creole languages.