LIND03H3 Lecture 10: Notes for lecture ten of Second Language Acquisition, incl. Age and L2 acq. conclusions

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Excluding pathological cases (feral children, aphasics), l1a is universally successful. The outcomes of the l2a process vary greatly. Joseph conrad polish (has very different sound system from english), learnt english when he got off the ship, 19 years old, mastered english, wrote the book heart of. Darkness, which turned into a movie called apocalypse, had a thick accent. Genie an example of a pathological case: Brought to the attention of child welfare authorities in la in 1970. Genie s father was crazy, her mother was blind, and her brother was told to only give her good, not to speak to her. There is a neurologically (or otherwise) conditioned window of opportunity for acquiring language fully, through the language-specific faculty (ug). The term sensitive periods is preferred nowadays. first stage sensory motor, then preoperational, then concrete operation (until about age 11/12) and then formal operation. don t have to have concrete material in order to think, you can.

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