JLP315H1 Lecture 1: JLP315; Lecture 1
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If you point to a bottle and let the child know that the bottle is a bottle - higher change that child will learn. Child could also think that that means outstretched arm - world to word association. Hard to know what is in the scenario and what relates to the main picture - a lot of nuances to languages. Terminology is hard to pin down, kept changing: first language vs second language acquisition. These two terms do not mean the same thing. This course leans toward the innateness hypothesis: language learning - learning in the case of the child is not intentional, but unconscious and innate, language development - better term. Children that are from deaf mute families do not learn language even if they have a. Tv: children need, suf cient input, normal development. Rules of language are not obvious: jim threw out anne"s chair, jim threw anne"s chair out but sally cannot walk the door out.
