LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Habituation, Universal Grammar, Jean Berko Gleason
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Word order: subject (s), object (o), verb (v, sov, svo, vso (95% of worlds language, s is always in front of o, vo order: preposition (eg. eng: pp: p np) Language acquisition: to aquire a language an infant needs. Discriminate human voices, to know that human voices is different from other noises like piano sounds. Learn to produce allophones, how to control their tongues lips. Combine sounds into meaningful words: different stage of infant learning language. 3 months: babbling, no vowels or consonants. 6 months: some consonants eg. kaka, gaga. 12 months: start saying words eg. kitty. 24 months: able to produce syntax phrase eg. my books. Explicit teaching (parent/teacher teaching) rejected!: children pick up language without explicit instruction, the wug test: this is a wug, there are two of them, there are two wug[z, children have internalised morphological rules.
