LING 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Deaf School, Psycholinguistics

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 321
• Professor: Dimitrios Skordos

Document Summary

Window for language learning is open until age 7. Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging language in nicaragua (senghas et al. Home systems of sign language are not language. In nicaragua, the first group in the deaf school just had a home system of sign language. The second and third groups that came into the school took that system and refined it and made their own real sign language. Significance: would tell us something about the input, tell us something about innateness of language. Background: how do languages describe motion events, the monkey jumped into the hole (english description of an animated event, greek (direct) translation: the monkey entered into the hole (jumping) In greek, people prefer to use path verbs (lexical bias of the language that kids pick up on early in their language learning: english: the monkey jumped into the hole.