PSYC 3506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Empiricism, Nicaraguan Sign Language, American Sign Language
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* additional reading read it for next week- principe et al. * midterm can be picked at the end of class or office. * some researchers argue for a critical period for learning grammar. Period which child needs to be exposed to language to fully acquire a complex language skill. * 1. looking on how individual learn their second language. * l2 studies ( second language study) studied asians in america. * tested how language exposure influence language acquirement. * naturalistic studies thus child will not fully acquire language. * genie: raised in a closet- exposed to language around. 12-13, could not graps grammar thus language was not fully sophisticated , only knew the basics. * continue to genie= evidence of critical period may be due to malnutrition or abuse. * fully grasped ;exposed to language a around6. * there is a biological timing to language exposure. * fodor the language of thought (lot)