BAPFOHL
May 9, 2001
Why is babytalk so complicated?


1. Milestones in language development

• My notes on language acquisition from my old undergrad class.



• My notes on phonological development from my graduate psycholinguistics class



• The homepage of Peter Jusczyk, baby language researcher



• Transcriptions of Hong Kong kids acquiring Cantonese

2. Growing grammar

• My notes on growing grammar from my graduate psycholinguistics class



• US News and World Report discusses baby language

3. Is grammar growth related to brain growth?

• My graduate psycholinguistics notes on the debates over innateness in language acquisition



• The importance of critical period research for the real lives of deaf people

4. A different view

• Somebody's class notes arguing that there is no critical period (based on how people acquire a second language)



• Language development research at the Center for Research in Language in California (a major critic of Pinker's views)