LIN229H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Markedness, Metalinguistic Awareness, Epenthesis
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There are some conditions where young children may have a problem with their nervous system, that they"re not able to acquire language. Poverty of the stimulus; you have very little formal input but somehow you manage to acquire the grammar of your language perfectly. Interlanguage grammar; it"s neither of the first or second language, it"s a combination of the two to create a new grammar. Positive/negative transfer: characteristics of l1 carry into the il grammar: + = aids you in the acquisition of the l2. Communicative competency: are you able to communicate with competence as you need to: the ability to use language in an appropriate social context or situation, organizational competence: grammatical or textual competence, pragmatic competence; illocutionary or sociolinguistic competence. A lot of people thought that language acquisition was more like behaviour, like the example of. Research wants to know how the second language grammar develops.
