LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aphasia, Specific Language Impairment, Critical Period
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Linguistic creativity: we can speak and understand a brand new sentence although we may have never heard or spoken it. Ex) john lied ------> nobody claimed that john lied. Bag of bags ---> bag of bags of bags. Putting a smaller thing inside a larger thing inside a larger thing that can keep on going infinitely: shows that language cannot be memorized, competence v. performance. Throw people together (sad circumstances such as slavery) and they find a way to communicate, people can get by with it but it"s not a full-fledged language = pidgin. Children are born in a pidgin and they have a poor stimulus and they grow up together to make the pidgin into a full-fledged language = Children will create language even if they don"t have a good strong stimulus. They are doing this all the time. We have recreated english in a slightly different way than before: language ability and general intelligence are distinct:
