LING 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Minimal Pair, Markedness, Pitch Contour
17 Dec 2016
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Positive/negative evidence: positive evidence is the grammatical stuff that the kids hear. Kids can learn a lot with that, can learn about the things that exist in a language. Direct/indirect evidence: indirect is what you assume something based on the absence of a given structure. It doesn"t say that ug is a module in your cognitive system. It"s not taking a specific view regarding that, but this is what people"s usually assume in formal linguistics -- that language is different from the rest of your cognitive system (eg, not the same as intelligence). Most people who debate about this debate about how to define when this period is . Assumed to be around early teens (12/13) it ends. A lot of research indicates that later speakers are actually able to do things, even subtle things. Maybe one of the ways to look at this is to think that each component (phonetic, syntax, lexicon) is separate subcomponents.
