LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Markov Chain, Eric Lenneberg, Text Segmentation

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Akihiko Arano( T A)

Document Summary

Input/ experience still plays a role, but less than the role it plays in empiricism. Input/ experience plays the largest role in learning. If there is innate knowledge it is domain general. Babbling begins at 6 months and becomes more variable and language specific by. First words are produced between 10-15 months. For many children, word learning accelerates dramatically around 18 months. Complex morphology appears on words between 2. 5-3 years. 2 word utterances occur between 1-3 years. These stages of acquisition are identical across different languages (despite great variations in input). Thus, language shows a characteristic biological behavior proposed by eric lenneberg. Last time we saw that words for mothers and fathers are very similar across various languages. The sounds for these words are very similar to babbling. We have learned that there is no systematic association of meaning and sound, however. The stream of speech is a continuous modulation of amplitude and frequency.