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Instructors: Dr. Ulrike Schneider
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.008.200
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: Engl. Ling. 200
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
In this seminar, we will study how children acquire their first language – their mother tongue. Why does it work so differently from language acquisition later in life? How does it work? And why is the field of first language acquisition THE battleground on which linguists fight over the theoretical foundations of language?
Recommended reading list:
Reading materials in this course will be drawn from
Lust, Barbara. 2006. Child Language. Acquisition and Growth. Cambridge: CUP.
as well as from
Tomasello, Michael. 2003. Constructing a Language. A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Additional information:
We will also conduct some small-scale empirical studies of first language acquisition.
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