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LING 452 - Language Acquisition

Units: 3 GE

Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley

Prerequisite(s): LING 420 .

Principles of child language development. Sounds and grammar in speech of young children. Acquisition of reading and vocabulary. Relationship between cognitive development and language. Development of language in bilinguals. Second language acquisition.