CAS PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Natural Experiment, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Critical Period
10 Jan 2017
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Key theoretical questions: are some aspects of language innate, some aspects of language must be learned. Human vocabulary explodes, by 3 years of age they have about 2,000 words, 5 years know. 10,000 words, end of high school know upwards of 60,000 words. Table and doll know table, say moku, assume that"s the doll thing o enables fast-mapping: the 18 month explosion o learning basis help children rapidly help children rapidly acquire new words. Mutual exclusive? o tested the dog to see if her really knew all 200, and discovered it was really true. Learning rules: syntax: colorless green ideas sleep furiously noam chomsky, even though this sentence makes no sense, somehow we know that it is grammatically correct can diagram sentences. Progression in grammar use: holophrasic speech (around 1 year) o one word used as a phrase. Saying milk meaning they want milk: telegraphic speech (around 2 years) o using 2 words.
