LING 005. First-Year Seminar: How Children Learn Language

This course explores how humans acquire a language from infancy to young childhood. We will examine how children come to acquire grammatical features, sound patterns, language structures, social language skills, and more. This course will also examine the role of cognitive development in language acquisition as well as theories of language acquisition. This course will investigate many sub-branches of linguistics, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and more.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Spring 2026. Donovan.
Catalog chapter: Linguistics
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/linguistics

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