ENG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: List Of Fables Characters, Functional Theories Of Grammar, Critical Period
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Especially in a short period of time: which theory of language acquisition does the ernie episode" challenge, i painted a red barn. Explain how children learn the meaning of new concepts. Children learn language by imitating those around them. Exposure to chinese > acquisition of chinese. Humans are genetically predisposed to acquire language language ability is innate. Fundamental aspects of ling. knowledge are inborn/ predetermined genetically. Language acquisition is unlike other learning (i. e. talking is like walking, but it is unlike learning to play the saxophone) Arguments for innateness theory: plato"s problem logical problem of la. Why are children insensitive to correction: active construction of grammar theory: ability to develop rules is innate. Child language is rule-governed: connectionist theory: information processing is carried out by nodes that are connected to other nodes in a network. Networks do not contain knowledge of symbolic rules; however, they have the ability to make associations based on regularities they detect in the input.
