PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Language Acquisition, North American English, Empiricism
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Most basic level, what it means to know a language having some inventory of speech sounds. English, we share a lot know a set of rules for combining these words (morphemes: or bits of words that have meaning pragmatic competence how to use language (contextually) Don"t know the information: unlikely to be able to teach it explicitly. Imitation: getting exposed to it, observing and mimicking, hear the information, store it, and use it later on, problem . Lecture 1: any case where learning an underlying system, learning system by being exposed to examples. Not a simple induction process more complicated. Not simply induction, it"s induction with something else going on. Nativist: language is part of a biological phenomenon, learners are prewired to consider certain hypothesis part of your genetic heritage is a kind of blueprint in your brain for what a language should look like.
