Language acquisition

Language acquisition

Study Cycle: 2

Lectures: 30

Seminars: 30

Tutorials: 0

ECTS credit: 6

Lecturer(s): izr. prof. dr. Manouilidou Christina

1. Basic terms (the problem of language acquisition, grammatical notions and constraints, critical age)
2. Methodological issues
3. Acquisition of phonology
4. Acquisition of lexicon
5. Acquisition of morphology
6. Acquisition of syntax
7. Distinction of language acquisition and acquisition of other cognitive abilities
8. Developmental language disorders
9. Overview of research in the acquisition of Slovenian

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