LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reduplication, Regular And Irregular Verbs, Oneword
13 Dec 2015
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They are not taught their language still they learn. Children learn their mother tongue by the time. *2 they are five or six years old. Learning first language it"s like learning to walk: *3 you do not have to be taught how to do it. It"s not so easy to learn the second language. *4 need lots of time, years of practice and still it"s not perfect in comparison with the first one. Conditioning" is the most important concept in this framework. That is, a certain response is associated with a certain stimulus. There are to types of conditioning: classical conditioning. The important factors in classical conditioning are: the unconditioned stimulus; the unconditioned response; the conditioned stimulus. b) operant conditioning. In operant conditioning, animals learn a behaviour pattern as the result of trial- and-error in order to get a reward or avoid punishment. Experiments show that children can distinguish voiced and voiceless sounds when they are one month old.
