Unit 1: Language acquisition

Unit 1: Language acquisition

Watch this video on language acquisition. What called your attention? What did you learn that you did not know before?  What did you already know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i1z37nYMrM 


Write your comments and be ready to share them with your classmates.



Then read the following chapters, cited in the sylabus: 


Copies of the chapter will be provided by the chair.

Akmajian, Adrian et al. (1998) Linguistics.  An introduction to Language and Communication. The MIT Press, Cambridge: Massachusetts.

O’Grady William and Dobrovosky, Michael. (1989) Contemporary Linguistics. An Introduction. New York: St. Martin’s Press.