LING 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Specific Language Impairment, Lexifier, Second-Language Acquisition

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Jon Gajewski

Document Summary

This gives us clues that children know from a young age rules of transformations are structure dependent. *transformations do not pay attention to linear order, they are structure dependent*. This means transformations are defined in terms of hierarchical structure: correct theory: move is that is in the matrix (highest) ip. Acquisition of semantics (no questions about this on exam) Children show an apparent tendency to interpret universal quantifiers (every, all) symmetrically. Some researchers proposed that children has mes-set a parameter, analyzing every as an adverb like always. Later researchers argued that children just misunderstood the task, they don"t know why you"re asking a question that has an obvious answer. The truth-value judgement task has been used to show that children assign the correct meaning to every. *stages are not ages: not all children reach the same development milestones at the same age, but all children do go through the same stages of language acquisition in the same order.