LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning, Natural Approach, Null-Subject Language
15 Jan 2016
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Lecture 2: how first language is acquired & implications for l2 acquisition/leaving. Age of learning, context of learning, aptitude, quantity of input, motivation to learn, length of time studying the language, practice. Differences between the way we learn our first language and the way we learn other languages later in life and/or in classroom settings. Tibetan study is, how should i put it, a formidable mountain. We learned the thirty tibetan consonants, and all was peachy. Then came the four vowel sounds, followed by the ten suffixes, five prefixes, two post suffixes, three superfixes and four subfixes. Any of these can be added to the original thirty consonants changing the sound and meaning in a myriad of ways. (it was about this time that i started finding clumps of hair in my balled-up fist . ) How thankful i am that i"m not in this alone.
