CSD-2464 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Class, Noam Chomsky, Linguistic Competence
20 Jan 2017
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Intimately related systems: can be dissociated, qualitatively different, unique to humans. Speech: efficient system of communication requiring complex articulator gestures, tangible. Strings of sounds reflecting movements of articulators: acquisition normally requires hearing others speak, most often easily acquired by age 4, governed by language-specific rules. Language: abstract, complex rule-governed communication system that is specific to a given language. Internal representation of experiences: language used to express thoughts, aphasia unable to e(cid:454)press what (cid:455)ou"re wanting to sa(cid:455, hearing impairments, social class. Language and speech: humans have an innate propensity at birth to learn any language, genetically programmed. Timed acquisition and universal milestones (babbling: capacity may be limited in time. Is it via learning principles or is it strictly the result of an innate capacity to acquire language: learning theories (rewards and punishments) Noam chomsky (1972: thought can be expressed orally by transforming dynamic representations of chunks of speech from a buffer into audible pressure waves via a stream of coordinated movements.
