PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Language Acquisition Device, Long-Term Memory, Hard Wired
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Noam chomsky suggested that we have language acquisition device (hard wired) in the brain to acquire language. We can communicate with other species in words (sign language) Children can find it hard to understand that letters and sounds differ. Basic component, this is how children learn to read. Theories of phonology are thought to involve pattern recognition; part of schema, becomes automatic. Taking sounds, and putting them together and creating words (abstract representation) Acquire language very quickly, within the first couple of months of life, learning the phonological components of language. Areas of the brain that develop to acquire language both comprehend (wernicke) and produce (broca area) Research shows if you are unilingual (average intelligence), bilingual (intelligence increases), trilingual (no more increase), quadralingual (intelligence decrease) Syllable is the most basic, morpheme (sound that has meaning) Meaning is thought to not carry only definition but also connotation (positive or negative)
