LINGUIST 3LA3 Midterm: LING 3LA3 COURSE NOTES

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Ling 3la3 midterm notes: biological basis of language. Humans in contact without a common language create pidgin languages. Children learning pidgins as native languages develop language with more systematic grammar (cid:523)creole(cid:524) than their parents" language. Nicaraguan sign-language- children inventing a common sign language developed structures different from miming. Some l(cid:883) interactionists (cid:523)emergentists(cid:524):michael tomasello, elizabeth bates , brian. Some l2 interactionists (emergentists): nick ellis, diane larsen-freeman, harald clahsen. On average, american children say their first word at around 13 months, experience a vocabulary spurt at around 19 months, and begin to produce simple sentences at around 24 months. (adapted from bloom, A complex network of language areas in the brain (hickock & poeppel, 2007) The biological basis of language: left hemisphere (cid:523)broca"s area, wernicke"s area, angular gyrus, inferior parietal lobe, a third of left-handers have right-lateralized language, medical background, test performance. Mother had rubella during pregnancy and a di cult delivery.