1) What is the child like when she is born? What can she adapt to during the course of development? 2) What is language (own explanation after the readings)? Why do you think language acquisition is an amazing feat? 3) What two views (or essential ingredients) on acquisition and learning are presented? 4) What needs to be considered and analysed to better understand the child’s course of linguistic development? 5) ) What do children need to acquire? What does not need to be acquired? 6) Think of all the properties of Language and what the child has at his disposal during acquisition? Which of these properties can be deduced from the input and which ones cannot? 7) At the age of 1 ½, children produce two- successive single words. Why can’t they be considered sentences? 8) What is the difference between Brown’s stages I and II? /Why is stage II called modulation of meaning? Compare it to Stage I and what the child can do linguistically. 9) What is a computational bottleneck? Relate it to the dichotomy competence-performance present in children's early linguistic development. 10) Why is MLU a better index than age? Consider all of Brown's stages, do you think it is equally useful at later stages of acquisition? Why/ Why not? 11) T. Analyse what the child can do linguistically and non-linguistically in all stages and establish if the tasks he can accomplish are equally complex in each domain. Why is it that the language acquisition process is an amazing feat?

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