LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Categorical Perception, Psycholinguistics, Vocal Folds
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Beyond cp: x acquire grammatical aspect of lang even w/ training. > cp hyp: a biologically determined window of opportunity between birth & puberty during which time brain is prepared to dev lang -> needs early & systematic exposure to lang. Newport 1990 acquisition of asl: 30 age 35-70 deaf adults signing for >30 yrs -: native learners - exposure from birth w/ asl signer parents 2. 4-6 yrs old @ residential sku (sku for deaf) 3. Late learners - 12+ yrs old w/ oralist sku at first. Derivational morphology (n vs v) -> (measure) 1. Degree of accent 2. morphology & syntax pdtion & comprehension: grammaticality judgment 4. Syntactic processing (speed & accuracy) e. g. (inflectional morphology) agreeing v - sign for v starts @ locus of subject. & ends @ locus of object i. e. give: he gives me = his direction -> my direction.
