PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Language Acquisition Device, Text Segmentation, Noam Chomsky
11 Mar 2014
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Children learn language by learning (i. e. , through imitation combined with parental reinforcement) children will say things that they have never heard before, wasn"t learned. Language learning is not really something the child does; it is something that happens. Chomsky and the l. a. d. (language acquisition device language module part of your. Interactionist view combination of the first two focus on interactions between biological endowment and environmental input. Knowledge of english grammar among asian immigrants to u. s. Ivs: age of arrival, number of years in u. s. Number of years mattered little, age of arrival mattered a lot. Came to us between 3+36 years of age. Separated these two things and found that number of years mattered little. Age at which you arrive matters a lot, younger the age the better the grammar. Arrive by age 7 grammar was just like any other native american. Arrived in late teens to adulthood is the worst.
