PSY 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Psy, 18 Months
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Kids can and it is beneficial to them to learn two languages simultaneously. Kids who grew up in bilingual households tend to have better executive functioning than others, ex: translating for your grandma who doesn"t speak any english in the grocery store. Natural tendency to create language, ex: even if they have no access to it, if they have other human contact they will develop a kind of language. Pidgin language arises when there is an area where the children of multiple language and there is no one language in common, so kids create a new pidgin language, ex: creole, Spanglish is not a pidgi(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s (cid:374)ot u(cid:374)ifor(cid:373) Criti(cid:272)is(cid:373) for cho(cid:373)sky"s nati(cid:448)is(cid:373) focus way too much on grammar and meaningful discourse it takes a lot of years of refinement to learn grammar properly, so he ignored social interactions. There is an innate disposition to learn language, but there is also a social context.