This course will focus on a few key issues in language development. The course will be largely a seminar-style discussion of a collection of articles and chapters on these issues. Speech perception in infants. The organization and reorganization of human speech perception. Similarity neighbourhoods of words in young children's lexicons.
Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word learning tasks.
Chapters 1-2 from The acquisition of speech sound categories on the basis of distributional information . Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona. Children's first word combinations. Chapter 7 from Early syntactic development . Syntactic categories in the speech of young children.