The theme of the seminar is directed towards the students interested in the ‘mystery’ of language acquisition, with special focus on sounds and sound sequences (but not excluding other components of language).
We will start with an overview of the major approaches to the study of language acquisition of both first language and further languages (SLA, TLA). In the next step, we will acquaint ourselves briefly with the reasons for the diversity of the languages of the world. With this background we will move on to reading and discussing in class several papers published over the recent years selected to illustrate a variety of aspects of the acquisition process.
The participants will choose a paper from the proposed selection to read and present in class.
- Teacher: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk