Childrens Speech- and Language Acquisition, 4.5 credits

For admission to semester 2, the student may remain a maximum of 15 credits from semester 1.

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• accout for children's typical speech and language development in different aspects of language
• describe envionmental factors on children's speech and language development

The course teaches children's babbling, speech and language acusition, for example early auditory and visual speech perception, prosody, the development of the sound system and the development of lexicon and syntax. Universal and language-specific factors in language acquistion, parent-child communication, factors that affect typical reading and writing acqusition and alternative augmentative communication are also discussed.

Teaching is given as lectures and a laboratory exercise in group-format.

The examination consists of written examination.

The written examination is graded anonymously (using a identification coded number for each student). Students who do not pass the written examination are entitled to five more examination occasions, the first within fourteen days of the notification of the exam result. The third re-examination is the next regular examination occasion of the course. Submission of a blank exam paper is regarded as an examination occasion. Examination occasion for which the student has registered but not participated in, does not count as a examination occasion.

Examination can take place according to an earlier literature list during a period of one year after the renewal of the literature list has been made. Examination will be provided during a period of two years after a possible shut-down of the course.

The course, as a whole, is given at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. The course evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the guidelines established by the Board of Higher Education.