Graduate Prerequisites: (GRSLX601) or consent of instructor. - Surveys current knowledge about how children acquire phonology during the first years of life. Topics include biological foundations; perceptual and vocal development; word learning; phonological universals; implicit and explicit learning mechanisms; formalist and functionalist models; and individual variation. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Phonological Development" that was previously numbered CAS LX 541.

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