Dr. Brenda Beverly

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DIRECTED OBSERVATIONS:

LECTURE NOTES:

Biological and Theoretical Bases of Language

Theoretical Perspectives of Language Acquisition

    Behavioral Theory

    Nativist/Syntactic Theory
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    Semantic/Cognitive Model

    Sociolinguistic Theory

    Emergentism

Speech

Diversity and Language

    Language Diversity: Dialect and AAE
             PBS Do You Speak American? Link

    Language Diversity: Bilingualism

Cognitive and Social Bases of Language

    Theory of Mind
    Human Cognitive Development - Birth to 2 1/2

    Cognitive Development before Age 2

    Perceptual Development
    Joint Attention Development

    Child Directed Speech

Communicative Development Across Ages and Stages

Birth to Two:

    Speech and Intentional Development: Birth to One

    First 50-word Lexicon: Noun Lovers vs Noun Leavers

    Toddler Talk: Chapter 7 Owens (2008)

            What counts as a word? Samples from a listserv discussion of child language experts
 

Preschool Age:
    Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development: Chapter 8 Owens (2008)

    Brown's Stages I, II

    Brown's Stages II, III
    Brown's Stages IV and V
 

School Age:
    School-Age Language Development

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