PSYCH320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Williams Syndrome, Genetic Disorder, Language Isolate

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH320
• Professor: Katherine White

Document Summary

Native + early learners = good at the task. Late learners = still show a lot of errors (worse mastery of asl grammar, even when they used it for 30+ years) -> able to learn vocabulary well (the grammatical skill = difficult to learn) Aoa (age of arrival = between 3-39 years, all in us at least 10 years) Counting when they started english when they arrived in the us. Grammaticality judgment task (presenting them with a sentence + asking them whether the sentence is grammatical are not) Results (drop off after the age of approximately 7 years old) People who arrive by the age of 7, they are fine. Language faculty (there is some special language faculty that children have that atrophy when the child gets older) Biological factors (changes in plasticity over time children"s brains are very plastic/easier for them to learn lots of stuff)