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MIT OpenCourseWare
Language Acquisition
- Instructor
- Prof. Ken Wexler
- Term
- Fall 2001
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 2 problem sets · 2 solutions · 1 reading · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 9.57J Language Acquisition, Fall 2001, Prof. Ken Wexler — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Learnability
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Lecture 3: Input
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Lecture 4: Principles and Parameters: X-Bar Theory, Theta Roles Phrase Structure
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Lecture 5: Principles and Parameters Continued: Including Verb Movement
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Lecture 6: Early Child Clause Structure, Verb Movement and Inflection
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Lecture 7: Verb Second Phenomena in Early Development
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Lecture 8: Case and Agreement in Syntax and Development
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Lecture 9: Introduction to Second Language Acquisition, and Its Differences from First Language Acquisition
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Lecture 10: Case, Agreement and Morphology in Development and Hypotheses about Oi Stage
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Lecture 11: Null Subjects and Parameter-Setting
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Lecture 12: Null Subjects in Child English: A Grammatical Phenomenon?
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Lecture 13: Null Subjects and The Oi Stage
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Lecture 14: Specific Language Impairment
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Lecture 15: Binding Theory, Syntax, Parameters, The Subset Principle and Learning
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Lecture 16: Binding Theory: Reflexives and Pronouns in Development
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Lecture 17: Second Language Acquisition and Its Relation to L1. Maturation and The Critical Period Hypothesis
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Lecture 18: Controversies in Binding Theory, Development, Determiners and The Theory Of Reference
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Lecture 19: Theories of Parameter-Setting
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Lecture 20: Argument-Chains in Syntax and Development – Passives
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Lecture 21: More Argument Chains in Development: Unaccusatives in Russian
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Lecture 22: The Development of Control
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Lecture 23: Extra Topic
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Lecture 24: Review
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Ken Wexler, 9.57J Language Acquisition, Fall 2001.
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