Office: Cramer Hall 230J
Lab: Cramer Hall 230T
Office
Hours: Monday 3:00-4:30,
Tuesday 12:30-2:00 or by appointment
Phone: 414-288-5190
Email: steven.long@marquette.edu
† purchase at Book Marq
‡ order online (http://www.bookdepository.com, http://www.amazon.com, etc.)
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on
electronic reserve at Raynor Library (https://marquette.ares.atlas-sys.com/ares/)
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physical reserve at Raynor Library
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Berman, R.A.
(1986). A cross-linguistic perspective: Morphology and syntax. In P. Fletcher
& M. Garman (Eds.), Language
Acquisition. Second Edition. |
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Bickerton, D.
(1983). Creole languages. Scientific
American, 249, 116-122. |
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Crystal D. (2004). Rediscover Grammar. |
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Owens, R.E. (2011).
Language Development: An Introduction.
8th Edition. |
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Pinker, S. (1991).
Rules of language. Science, 250,
530-535. |
Online
Resources
http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_owens_langdevelop_8/. This “Companion Web
site” for the Owens textbook contains practice quizzes for each chapter as well
as audio samples, flashcards for learning terminology, and links to other
relevant websites.
Videos
For
most of the units in this course there are available short (less than 50
minute) videos to watch on your home computer. These videos will enhance and
reinforce what you read and learn in class but watching them is optional and
you need not take notes. The videos can be downloaded from D2L.
Terminology and
Sample Questions to review for Exams
The
link for a review document may not work (i.e., you’ll see “The page cannot be
found”) until a week before before that exam.
Course
Outline
Topics to be covered
in each class are listed in the table below, along with the texts that should
be read. Homework due dates are in boldface and are subject to change.
Examination dates are also shown. The PDF links will let you download all the
Powerpoint slides shown in class for a given unit. The PDF link for a given
unit may not work (i.e., you’ll see “The page cannot be found”) until a few
days before we begin that unit in class.
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Lecture Topics |
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PDF |
Homework |
Key |
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8/25 M |
Language
domains |
Owens:
chapter 1 |
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8/27 W 8/29 F |
First
words |
Owens:
chapter 7 |
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9/1 M |
no class (Labor Day) |
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9/3 W 9/5 F 9/8 M |
First
words (cont.) |
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9/10 W 9/12 F |
Precursors
of language in infancy |
Owens:
chapters 4, 5 |
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9/15 M 9/17 W 9/19 F |
Conversations
of parents & children |
Owens, pp. 165-175 |
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9/22 M |
First Examination |
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9/24 W 9/26 F 9/29 M 10/1 W 10/3 F |
Grammatical
structures of English |
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10/6 M 10/8 W 10/10 F 10/13 M 10/15 W |
Grammatical
development |
Owens:
pp. 147-164, 269-303, 338-349 |
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10/17 F |
no class (Mid-semester
holiday) |
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10/20 M 10/22 W 10/24 F |
Later
lexical development |
Owens:
pp. 252-259, 331-338 |
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10/27 M |
Second Examination |
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10/29 W 10/31 F |
Pragmatic
development |
Owens:
pp. 227-251, 315-331 |
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11/3 M 11/5 W |
Individual
differences |
Owens: pp. 386-388 |
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11/7 F 11/10 M 11/12 W |
Later
achievements: metaphor, humor, idiom, narrative, language awareness |
Owens:
pp. 335-338, 351-353 |
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11/14 F 11/17 M |
Acquisition
of other languages |
Berman |
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11/19 W 11/21 F 11/24 M |
Biological,
cognitive, and environmental factors in language development |
Owens:
chapter 3 |
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11/26 W 11/28 F |
no class (Thanksgiving
Break) |
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12/1 M 12/3 W |
Linguistic
theories of language acquisition |
Pinker Bickerton |
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12/5 F |
catch-up |
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12/11 Th |
1:00-3:00 pm
Final Examination |
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