PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Voice-Onset Time, Universal Grammar, Creole Language
8 Jan 2017
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What does systems theory say about language? language acquisition device deep structure. Is the perceptual narrowing of speech sounds gradual or fast? categorical perception. It is a developmental resource: reliably present and species typical. The learning mechanisms that young children have that allow them to analyse the language they hear and to acquire and produce their own native language. Chomsky"s term for the wordless structure that is common to utterances with the same meaning. The set of principles and adjustable parameters that are common to all known human languages. Though there is much variation in languages, there is a constricted set of ways to put language together. Chinese and american children will develop sign language (home signs) that are remarkably similar, regardless of the differences between chinese and. Infants can parse the speech stream and analyse it. Newborns are most sensitive to sounds that fall in the range of human speech sounds. Newborns prefer to listen to human speech sounds.
