LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Regular And Irregular Verbs, Pragmatics, Classical Conditioning
11 Apr 2016
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We need lots of time, years of practice and still it"s not perfect in comparison with the rst one. Behaviourism: conditioning" is the most important concept in this framework. That is, a certain response is associated with a certain stimulus: there are two types of conditioning, a) classical conditioning: important factors > The conditioned stimulus: b) operant conditioning: in this 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. If these perceptual mechanisms are innate they should be universal for all babies irrespective of race, nationality, language origin, etc. She tested the sounds made in hindi, salish, and english. She found that at six months all children could distinguish the sounds in all three languages. But at one year , the english children could only distinguish english sounds, the hindi children could only distinguish.
