Chapter 4 Flashcards
Define Modularity
How the brain is organized for various cognitive processes
What is strict modularity
Domain specific language development
What is non-modularity?
Domain general language development
Nurture inspired theories
a.k.a empiricist theories
Human gain all knowledge through experience
What is the extreme empiricist position beleive?
Children come as a blank slate
What is nature-inspired theories?
A.k.a nativist theories
Knowledge is innate(natural) and genetically transmitted rather than learned by experience
What is the extreme nativist position belief?
Language system is in place at birth
What is interactionist theories?
Language develops through interaction between nature related and nurture related factors
Behaviorist theory
A nurture-based theory by B.F.Skinner. All learning is the result of operant conditioning. Behaviors that are reinforced become strengthened and behaviors that are punished become suppressed
What is operant conditioning?
Behavior is determined by its consequences
What is there 3 nature based theories?
Universal grammar, Fodor’s Modularity Theory, bootstrapping theories
What is Chomsky’s Universal Grammar?
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What is Fodor’s Modularity Theory
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What are the 3 bootstrapping theories
Syntactic bootstrapping
Semantic Bootstrapping
Prosodic bootstrapping
Define prosodic bootstrapping
Infants are sensitive to the acoustic patterns of their native language
