T1:Lecture 3 Flashcards
What is the Language bio-program hypothesis?
- Nativist view of language
- Children are innately predisposed to acquire syntax
- (Derek Bickerton)
What is the Language Acquisition Device?
- Necessary for understanding fundaments of grammer
- (Noam Chompsky)
What are the three characteristics of children acquiring language?
- Effortlessly
- Rapidly
- Implicitly
What is Pidgin language?
- Invented language
- Draws on grammer/language from a group of languages
- Has unsophisticated syntax
What is Creoles?
- When the pidgin language is acquired as a native language
- Has syntax
What is a sensitive period?
ideal time for acquiring certain part of language
What do pieces of evidence support sensitive periods?
- Isolated children
- Deaf singers
What is the general learning capacity?
- Alternative view to nativist accounts
- Children have pattern recognition systems
- They learn about word boundaries
How do children use statistical learning?
By forming language categories when they recognise regularities
What are the 3x characteristics of parentese?
- Simplified Speech
- Exaggerated inotation
- Draws attention to key parts
How do children learn early words?
- Children’s behaviour guide parents talk
- Words refer to things: gaze and objects are connected
- Joint attention: sharing attention of something with someone else
- Emerge as part of social routine
What does self constructual refer to?
Self perception
Components of INdependent cultures with child feedback
- Internal attributes most salient
- Self concept separate from group
- Personal goals higher priority than group goals
Components of INTERdependent cultures with child feedback
- Social role more salient
- Self concept is part of group
- Group goals priority
- Relationships are crucial
What kind of culture uses child centered talks:
Independent
