HD 633 / Ling 633 / Cogst 700

Instructor: Professor Barbara Lust
Phone: (607) 255-0829
E-mail: bcl4@cornell.edu

This seminar reviews and critiques current theoretical and experimental studies of first language acquisition, with a concentration on insights gained by cross-linguistic study of this area. Attention is also given to the development of research proposals.

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Ling 337 / HD 337 / Psych 337 / Cogst 337

Instructor: Professor Barbara Lust
Phone: (607) 255-0829
E-mail: bcl4@cornell.edu

A survey of basic issues, methods, and research in the study of first-language acquisition. Major theoretical positions in the field are considered in the light of experimental studies in first-language acquisition of phonology, syntax, and semantics from infancy on. The fundamental linguistic issues of universal grammar and the biological foundations for acquisition are discussed, as are the issues of relations between language and thought. The acquisition of communication systems in nonhuman species such as chimpanzees are addressed, but major emphasis is on the child. Prerequisites: at least one course in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive development, or linguistics.

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HD 334 / Cogst 334

Instructor: Professor Barbara Lust
Phone: (607) 255-0829
E-mail: bcl4@cornell.edu

In this course the fundamental issues of cognition are introduced. What is the nature of human intelligence? Of logical and scientific reasoning? How are knowledge and understanding acquired and represented in the human mind? What is the nature of mental representation? what are the cognitive charateristics of the mind at birth? What is the relation of the acquisition of knowledge and understanding to their representation? What are the relations betwwen language and thought? In the study of those issues, how can epistemology and experimental psychology be related through the experimental method? Basic debates within the study of cognition are introduced and discussed throughout. The course will analyze Piaget's comprehensive theory of cognitive development and experimental results. Current research in cognitive development will be constrasted.

A seminar, HD/COGST 434, will be available as a supplement to this course for a limited number of students taking this course.

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HD 434 / Cogst 434

Instructor: Professor Barbara Lust
Phone: (607) 255-0829
E-mail: bcl4@cornell.edu

This course will supplement Survey course HD 334/Cogst 334 with additional discussion of current research in the area of cognitive development. Selected current papers will be read and dicusssed in parallel with the HD334/Cogst334 Survey course. Modern interpretations and challenges to Piaget's theory will be evaluated in lihgt of current literature in the field. A small group format will be adopted to encourage discussion.

Prereqs: Course HD334/Cogst334 (simuntaneously)

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HD 450 / Cogst 450 / Ling 450 / Psych 437

Instructor: Professor Barbara Lust
Phone: (607) 255-0829
E-mail: bcl4@cornell.edu

How do we know what the child knows about language? This laboratory course will provide undergraduate with an introduction to hands-on research experience in the Cognitive Studies Research Labs.

This lab course will include several structured modules dealing with topics covered in the survey course (HD336/Psych/Ling/Cogst 436), Language Development. They will include training in how to study child language from various languages in the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab (CLAL), and training necessary to the collection and analysis of developing child language. Emphasis will be placed on developing research procedures in order to test hypothesis according to scientific methods.

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HD400/401/402/403

Instructor: Professor Barbara Lust
Phone: (607) 255-0829
E-mail: bcl4@cornell.edu

Fall or spring. Credit TBA; 1–4. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. S-U grades optional.

For advanced independent study by an individual student or for study on an experimental basis with a group of students in a field of HD not otherwise provided through course work in the department or elsewhere at the university. Students prepare a multicopy description of the study they want to undertake, on a form available from the department office in G77 MVR. This form must be signed by the instructor directing the study and the student’s faculty advisor and submitted to G77 MVR, the Office of Undergraduate Education. After the form is approved, the student takes it to the college registrar’s office, 145 MVR. To ensure review before the close of the periods, early submission of the special studies form to the Office of Undergraduate Education is necessary. Students, in consultation with their supervisor, should register for one of the following subdivisions of independent study.

Study in language acquisition available.*

*If interested, please pick up a copy of the green application form in front of MVR G57 and return to Professor Lust or to a lab assistant in G17 Lab.

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Cogst 471

Instructor: Professor Barbara Lust
Phone: (607) 255-0829
E-mail: bcl4@cornell.edu

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