LING 2000 Lecture 3: Linguistics: Chapter 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 14
25 Sep 2017
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These theories are in place to attempt to account for how children acquire language. Innate: humans are genetically predisposed to acquire and use language. Innate behavior is present in all normal individuals of a species, whereas learned behaviors are not: example: walking vs playing piano. Innateness hypothesis: does not answer all questions about how children learn language. Innateness hypothesis claims that babies are born with the knowledge that languages have patterns and also with the ability to seek out and identify those patterns. Linguistic universals: basic features shared by all languages, such as the concepts of "noun" and. However trauma must be considered: homesign: communicative gestures invented by deaf children and the people who they interact with, where signed language is unavailable. 14. 1. 1: design features: requisite descriptive characteristics of language suggested by charles hockett. If language is defined as a communication system that possesses all 9 of these features, we are able to say that only humans use language.
