LING 100 Lecture 3: Ling 100 (3)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Yourie Pankrats

Document Summary

9-10 (part 1): first and second language acquisition (first language acquisition) Child(cid:396)e(cid:374) lea(cid:396)(cid:374) thei(cid:396) (cid:373)othe(cid:396) to(cid:374)gue (cid:271)(cid:455) the ti(cid:373)e the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e fi(cid:448)e/si(cid:454) (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s(cid:859) old. Learning a second language is not as easy as learning the first one: second language requires lots of time, years of practice, and it still wont be as perfect as the first one. Behaviourism: (cid:862)conditioning(cid:863) (most important concept in this theory) certain response is association with a certain stimulus. Classical conditioning learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (a response where the first is depended on the second stimulus) Important factors: the unconditioned stimulus, the unconditioned response, and the conditioned stimulus. Operant conditioning a process where an animal learns a behaviour pattern as the result of trial-and-error to get a reward or avoid punishment. Experiments show that children can distinguish voiced and voiceless sounds when they are 1 month old.