HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Language Acquisition Device, Frontal Lobe, Noam Chomsky
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Biological endowment that enables children to detect certain features and rules of language, including how it should sound, phonology, syntax, and semantics. Novel language - they make up things that they"ve never heard; can i sit benext to you? ; make up things that they haven"t seen modeled. Overgeneralization of rules - it broked instead of it"s broken ; part of the support for the. Nativist side; we seem to have a built-in rule generator, there seems to be a biological basis for that; if you were only modeling and being reinforced for proper language, you wouldn"t overgeneralize rules. Birth - 0; 10 months - 1, often something to indicate mama; 12 months - 3; 18 months - 22; 24 months - 272; 36 months - 1000; 48 months - 1540. In middle childhood, learn about 20 words per day - word magnet phase.