The challenge of studying language -- Preparing to work with children, schools, and families -- Creating the data I: working in teams, basic data collection, data sharing, and data management -- Studying language acquisition through collecting speech -- Introduction to experimental methods: design and analysis -- Experimental tasks for generating language production data -- Experimental tasks for generating language comprehension data -- The grammaticality judgment task -- Creating the data II: begin data processing -- Creating the data III: preparing for data analysis -- Interpreting the data: scientific inference -- Assessing multilingual acquisition -- Introduction to infant testing methods in language acquisition research -- Conclusions and proceeding to the future -- Transcription symbols -- The international phonetic alphabet -- Outline for preparation of schematic research proposal -- Suggested readings.

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