1. 9/29  Opening

2. 10/6  Chapters 1 & 6: Background Concepts; Studying Child Language       
                                   Set up observations (three observations)

3. 10/13  Chapters 1 & 6

4. 10/20  Chapter 2: Foundations of Early Communication

5. 10/27  Chapter 2; Chapter 3: Prelinguistic Communicative
                  Competence and the Early Lexicon (pages 29-51 at least)

6. 11/3    Chapter 3 (52-69)

7. 11/10 In-class exam (Chapters 1-3, 6)

8. 11/17  Chapter 4: Communicating with Language (Parts 1 & 2)

9. 11/24  Chapter 4 (Parts 3 & 4)

10. 12/1  Chapter 4

11. 12/8  Chapter 5: Explaining the Development of Communicative
                             Competence (Parts 1 & 2)

12. 12/15 Chapter 5 (Parts 3-5)

13. 12/22 Chapter 5 (Parts 6 & 7) [Begin take-home exam]

14. 12/29 Chapter 5

15. 1/5     Group oral reports on observations [Take-home exam due]

16. 1/12   Group oral reports on observations

17. 1/19   Conclusion

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