In this seminar, we will track the progress children make when learning their mother tongue. In doing this, we will go through the individual stages of phonological, semantic and syntactic development; we will see how children start babbling, build up their lexicon starting with their first words, assign meaning to these words, and ultimately build more and more complex sentences. In addition, we will take a glimpse at various issues surrounding the topic of language acquisition, as well as experimental methods used in investigating language acquisition. One of the main foci will be pragmatic development, which we will focus on in the second half of the course. We will see how children compute metaphors, irony, and implicature, and see why it is that they struggle with some context-dependent phenomena more than with others.
Admission settings
The course is part of admission "ESW/ASW: Aufbaumodul BA/LA: S".
Studierende der Anglistik/Amerikanistik und des Faches Englisch können sich bereits während der vorgezogenen Anmeldephase zur Sicherstellung des Studienfortschritts für die Aufbau- und Vertiefungsmodule anmelden. Hierzu wird ein gewisses Kontingent der Kursplätze im Zeitraum vom 22.08.2022 bis 31.08.2022 für die Anmeldung geöffnet. Die Verteilung der Plätze erfolgt am 02.09.2022.
Bitte beachten Sie, dass in dieser Anmeldephase Studierende in höheren Fachsemestern bei der Verteilung der Plätze priorisiert werden. Die allgemeine Anmeldephase beginnt am 05.09.2022 und endet am 10.10.2022. The following rules apply for the admission:
A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 12.10.2022 on 12:00. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
This setting is active from 05.09.2022 08:00 to 10.10.2022 12:00. Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
The enrolment is possible from 05.09.2022, 08:00 to 10.10.2022, 12:00.
