PS378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nicaraguan Sign Language, Language Acquisition Device, Haitian Creole
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Reflections: rules of language are not obvious, language is really complicated. Adult speakers are unconsciously aware of these rules: adult native speakers uniformly and overwhelmingly agree, to know english is to know and how to determine which sentences are possible and which are impossible in english. Acquiring a language/ acquisition: effortless achievement that occurs, 1. The sentence bill a cookie ate is not a sentence in. Complete: consistent response, indicates unambiguously grammatical or ungrammatical . Partial: if there is a response it indicates. Noisy: response given to both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences, but with different/ detectable frequency: 3. Under varying circumstances, and in a limited amount of time: parents respond differently. Some parents ask clarification questions after ill- formed wh-questions. Other parents ask clarification after well-formed wh-questions and after past tense errors. How can kids figure out what correlates with grammatically in their situation: piedmont carolinas: heath (1983)
