LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Critical Period, Language Disorder, Nonverbal Communication
24 Dec 2018
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What do toddlers learn: rules that are necessary to understand and produce an infinite number of sentences, sound systems, verb usage, rules that allow them to know what is not possible in their language, tacit knowledge = intuition. Sentence b is an appropriate question that can be answered by sentence a. Sentence b is not a coherent question that can be answered by sentence a. No one ever explicitly taught us that sentence b is ungrammatical. There are lots of valid ways to analyze the ways the data children hear: the data doesn"t provide a way of choosing the right analysis. *there is three books on the table. vs. There are three books on the table: children still end up with a very complex and complete language system, not just reflective of the input they receive, acquire rules that they have no direct evidence for.
