Linguistics 2244A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 2244A/B
• Professor: J. Garavito

Document Summary

If innatists are right, dolphins, bonobos and chimpanzees probable cannot learn a human language. To finish some loose ends from chapter 1: the critical period; bilingualism. To examine the differences between acquiring a first and a second language. Acquisition: the grammar is acquired without conscious knowledge, as it is in the first language. It is said that language and grammar becomes part of procedural memory, which is unconscious (implicit) Procedural memory is in fact inaccessible to conscious knowledge). Generally acquisition takes place in a natural setting. It is often said that, in the classroom, a communicative approach is necessary for acquisition. Because language develops naturally, it exhibits stages. Knowledge of vocabulary is conscious (but the grammatical aspects of words are unconscious. We refer to this aspect as the lexicon. Learning generally refers to conscious knowledge that is arrived at by explicit (conscious) teaching of rules and practice.