SPAN 597 Language Acquisition and Variation

This course brings together research in sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and first and second language acquisition in order to prepare students to investigate how learners acquire and process sociolinguistic variation. The course will cover various corpus and experimental studies on the acquisition of variation and review how these studies inform models of L1 and L2 acquisition. The goal of the course is for students to draw from these various sub-disciplines of linguistics and create a project that integrates language variation and language acquisition.