PSYC 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Regular And Irregular Verbs, 1990 United States Census, Sign Language
14 Apr 2017
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Seems that children"s learning is constrained (constraint approach) Could very well be socially constructed (social pragmatic approach) Is there something about the social situation that leads us to the right meaning of the word (social pragmatic approach, social context): role of the input (page 16 in chapter 8): Chomsky: from his perspective, language isn"t learned. They acquire or mature it, like the way they grow an arm or leg. He wasn"t concerned about the biology; his argument was purely logical. The way he described language, he didn"t see any possible way kids could learn it especially because their stimulus isn"t sufficient to learn language and they get inadequate correction by parents. Thus, they must know it in some sense (because kids overregulate and parents don"t teach them to say words like fighted" instead of fought") Parents may recast the utterances so that they are grammatically correct without straight up correcting it.
