ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Language Acquisition, Universal Grammar, Language Ideology

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Victor Barac, Todd Sanders

Document Summary

There are multiple ways of becoming fluent in ones language and become socialized in ones culture. Examples of bage and katie one can see caregivers socializing their children into becoming very different kinds of social beings through culture specific use of language. Language acquisition and socialization process : learning language is not something a child does. It is what a child learns based on the environment they are raised in: chomsky believe that environment has very role in language acquisition process, he also believes that language arises out of separate domain specific faculty of. Process of acquiring language affected by process of becoming a competent member of society. Process of becoming a competent member of society is realized to a large extent through language. Language acquisition in bilingual or multilingual contexts : when a child is exposed to regularly to two or more manages during stages of development they usually become fluent in all alphabet available to them.