CDS 301 — CHILD LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

TUES and THURS 3:30 - 4:50 p.m., 215 Nat Sci Bldg

FALL Semester 2000

Instructor: Jan Charles-Luce, Ph.D.

116 Cary Hall (South Campus)

829-2797 EXT. 636

 

E-mail: CDSCLUCE@acsu.buffalo.edu

Web Page: www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cdscluce

 

Office Hours: MON 11:00 - 12:00 TUES 12:30 — 1:30

and BY APPOINTMENT

Teaching Assistant: To be announced (Office in Cary 120A)

OPTIONAL Text: Berko Gleason, Jean. (1997). The Development of Language.

5th edition. Allyn and Bacon.

 

Course Description: Students are introduced to children’s first language acquisition of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Most of the course will focus on development from infancy to preschool age, but language development across the lifespan will also be discussed. In addition, parallel developments in cognition and biology, and the cultural influences on language acquisition will be discussed. Finally, we will briefly examine some aspects of atypical language development. The course is intended to be of interest to students of speech and hearing, linguistics, psychology, early child development, or education.

 
 

Course Requirements (TOTAL 200 POINTS):

 

1. 3 Exams — Exam I (50 points)

Exam II (50 points)

Cumulative Exam III (100 points)

 

2. Extra Credit will be given. Total possible is 10 points. Extra credit may involve answering a question given in class, homework problems related to class material, etc.

 

Grading:

Grading Scale:

Exam I 25%

90 - 100 A

Exam II 25%

80 - 89 B

Exam III 50%

70 - 79 C

 

60 - 69 D

 

0 - 59 F

 

DATE

TOPIC

ASSIGNMENT

     

8/29

Introduction

 

8/31

Nature vs. Nurture

Berko Gleason Chap. 1

     

9/05

Biology of Language

 

9/07

Infant Communication

Berko Gleason Chap. 2

     

9/12

Phonological Development

Berko Gleason Chap. 3

9/14

Phonological Dev. Cont.

 
     

9/19

Semantic Development

Berko Gleason Chap. 4

9/21

Semantic Dev. Cont.

 
     

9/26

Semantic Dev. Cont.

 

9/28 EXAM I

EXAM I

EXAM I

     

10/03

The Early Lexicon

 

10/05

Early Word Recognition

 
     

10/10

NO CLASS

 

10/12

Morphological Development

Berko Gleason Chap. 5

     

10/17

Syntactic Development

 

10/19

Syntactic Dev. Cont.

 
     

10/24

Syntactic Dev. Cont.

 

10/26

Pragmatic Development

Berko Gleason Chap. 6

     

10/31

Pragmatic Dev. Cont.

 

11/02

Accounts of Acquisition

Berko Gleason Chap. 7

     

11/07

Modules vs. Distributed

 

11/09 EXAM II

EXAM II

EXAM II

     

11/14

Bilinguilism

Berko Gleason Chap. 8

11/16

Atypical Lang. Devel.

Berko Gleason Chap. 9

     

11/21

Atypical Lang. Devel. Cont.

 

11/23

NO CLASS

 
     

11/28

Literacy Develop.

Berko Gleason Chap. 10

11/30

Lifespan Development

Berko Gleason Chap. 11

     

12/05

Lifespan Dev. Cont.

 

12/07

REVIEW for Exam III Innateness vs. Learning

 

PLEASE NOTE: 1) ABOVE DATES MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

2) Make-up Exams I and II must have GOOD excuse–my judgment.

3) Final grades will use a +/- scale.

(96% and above = straight A)

4) I will be happy to accommodate students who would like the

services of the Office of Disability Services (Capen 25).