BIOL241 Study Guide - Final Guide: Phoneme, Speech Segmentation, First Language
21 Dec 2015
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First language is regular, meaning that it is governed. A sentence can be reorganized and still retain. 1. its meaning because a system of rules details how each word fits with the ones around it: natural language: arbitrary i. 1. animal with whiskers: natural language: productive, whorf-sapier hypothesis. Almost limitless ways to combine words to describe objects, situations and actions. This is particularly evident when observing native language development in the youngest learners: infants have an impressive propensity for learning language and actively experiment with novel word and sound combinations that have never been explicitly taught. Although thought and language are not one and the same, some thoughts do take the form of language and so some researchers have suggested that language may influence how we perceive and experience the world. Example: tribe in brazil has counting for up to.
