Study plan
Compact Study Path: Human Capacity for Language and Core Morphology
Build a compact four-lesson path covering the human capacity for language and core morphology concepts from Denham and Lobeck.
Lessons in this plan
- 1 How humans acquire language Explain why language acquisition is not just imitation by using evidence from children’s rule formation, developmental stages, and early overgeneralization.
- 2 Human language beyond simple input Describe how bilingualism, emerging sign systems, and evidence from brain lateralization deepen our understanding of the human capacity for language.
- 3 Morphemes, word classes, and the structure of words Identify morphemes, distinguish content words from function words, and classify morphemes as free or bound, roots or affixes.
- 4 Building and analyzing complex words Analyze derivational and inflectional morphology, including prefixation, suffixation, infixation, word trees, and structural ambiguity such as in unlockable.