EDEE 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Period Hypothesis, Universal Grammar, Language Acquisition
10 Oct 2016
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Receive positive reinforcement (praise or successful communication) Positive reinforcement leads to continued imitation and practice to form habits. The quality and quantity of language the child heads and consistency of reinforcement shape the child"s behavior . Environment - source of everything the child needs to learn. Languages are fundamentally innate and the same universal principles underlie all of them. Environment makes a basic contribution - people to speak with - biological endowment will do the rest. Children learn more about their language than their environment can give them (false starts, slips of the tongue) (distinguish between grammatical and ungrammatical) Universal grammar innate endowment consists of principles that are universal to all languages. Must learn the ways in which the language being acquired makes use of these principles. Language development is both biological and social. Language is learned as a result of the desire of children to communicate with others.
