Development
TipLearning goals for this unit
- Describe evidence for the following claims:
- Children’s language networks develop gradually
- Language experience early in life is necessary for the development of the language network in the brain
- Damage to the left-hemisphere language network during infancy causes language to be processed in a mirror-image right-hemisphere network
- In multilinguals, brain processing of language is affected by (i) the age at which the person began acquiring the language and also (ii) the person’s proficiency level in the language
- Based on a description of a new study of language network development, interpret an unfamiliar brain activation figure and state a claim that is supported by the evidence
| Date | Topic | Due |
|---|---|---|
| Tues 10/20 | Children’s language networks | Newport & Getz 2025 |
| Thurs 10/22 | Critical periods & language deprivation | |
| Friday 10/23 | Summary #2 | |
| Tues 10/27 | Perinatal stroke | Newport et al. 2022 |
| Thurs 10/29 | Bilingualism | TBD |
| Friday 10/30 | Summary #3 | |
| Tues 11/3 | Bilingualism | |
| Thurs 11/5 | Exam #3 |
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