L-ge Acquisit TB Flashcards by Iltae Park | Brainscape

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The mental system that allows people to speak and understand a language

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Language acquisition is basically acquistion of _________. Why?

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Mature language users are able to produce & understand unlimited number of novel sentences.
Children do not just imitate adults’ utterances. They create rules of their own to capture the regularities in the language; e.g. doed, runed

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