PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Syntactic Bootstrapping, Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Universal Grammar
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Adjectives come before nouns or after nouns ex. Empiricist view: idea is children"s general cognitive abilities equip them with mechanisms that allow them to learn language on the basis of input alone. Brain chunking away all these individual acts of speaking, and working away all these data in the back: more optimistic view about the processing/memory abilities of children, implicit thinking, not a dedicated module. Links to general cognition and not some organ that sits on its" own (sets those settings: encapsulated cognitive module . Genetic heritage as human is giving them stuff. Demonstrations: distributional cues: patterns in language that are learned over the course of experience, certain things that we thought might be innate that have been discovered could be learned, children are attending to the patterns they encounter. Learn some construction, and seems to be very bound to the particular word: ex. Child learns in english fred gave the dog a bone, can say it in many.
