PSYC 370B

Developmental Psycholinguistics

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Offered in collaboration with the department of Linguistics. The course examines the biological bases of language; stage by stage acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of the child's first language; and the child's developing metalinguistic abilities. Also treated are the child's growing awareness of the form and function of speech acts, as well as the discourse rules governing conversations.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 370B, 369, LING 369, 370B.

Also: LING 370B

Formerly: 369

Prerequisites: 100A, 100B; or permission of the instructor.

Undergraduate course in Psychology offered by the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences.