COSD 421 - Language Development: Birth to Five Years

Credits: (3)

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture.
This course will acquaint students with the complex and interwoven biological, cognitive, sociocultural, and perceptual factors that contribute to language development in the first five years of life. Topics will include the properties and components of language and communication; the factors that interact in the process of language acquisition; the sequential development of speech and language; aspects of the development of language form (syntax, morphology, phonology), content (semantics), and use (pragmatics) with a strong focus on cultural and linguistic diversity.

Note(s): Cultural or Behavioral Analysis designated course.