LIN 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reduplication, Calibration, Zill

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 201
• Professor: Kenji Oda

Document Summary

The process involved in learning your first language (l1) as a child. There is good evidence that children follow innate principles in language acquisition. The process involved in learning any language (l2) after the acquisition of a first language: could be later in childhood, could be in adulthood. How to draw a syntactic tree or tie a knot is learned knowledge. Second languages are by and large learned. Language learners must come up with a grammar based on the input they receive. The i(cid:374)put does(cid:374)"t gi(cid:448)e lear(cid:374)ers e(cid:374)ough i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) to (cid:449)ork out all the properties of the language. (poverty-of-the-stimulus) Input contains ambiguous sentences and performance (mispronunciations, false starts, interruptions): very little negative evidence (cid:894)childre(cid:374) are (cid:448)er(cid:455) rarel(cid:455) o(cid:448)ertl(cid:455) (cid:862)(cid:272)orre(cid:272)ted(cid:863)(cid:895, no one teaches you what the phonemes, allophones, and phonological processes of the language are. E(cid:454). (cid:862)what did (cid:455)ou eat? (cid:863), (cid:862)(cid:449)hat(cid:863) (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e at the (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of the sentence.