Structure of Sentences
the meaning of words
semantics
how do Samoan's view infants language use
they do not see it as opportunities for meaningful exchange
This idea that people display knowledge of grammar greater than the amount of linguistic input received is known as
the poverty of stimulus
•the ability to recognize differences in sounds
speech perception
LAD
Language Acquisition Device
words that provide the structure of sentences
functional categories
one word having many meanings
overextension
language has an innate set of structural rules independent of sensory input
universal grammar
one-word sentences
the holophrastic stage
LASS
Language Acquisition Support System
Sentences are made of clauses and phrases, which in turn are made up of smaller clauses and phrases or words.
compositionality
one word have one specific meaning
underextension
the same grammatical process can apply more than once in their grammars that make it possible for them to produce sentences of indefinite length
Recursion
concrete objects grounded in everyday experience and tend to be
content words
what is one main argument of nativism?
•1. all children acquire language easily and rapidly
•2. Adult speech is a poor model
•3. children rarely receive specific feedback or negative evidence of grammatical mistakes.
•4.Children create or generate a rule-based system
Once a phrase has found its compliment, the grammar must have a mechanism that combines phrases.
merger
what was the purpose of jean berko's inflectional morphology study?
to determine if children can place accurate grammatical structures to imaginary objects
language is not the result of general learning mechanisms, but rather is an innate capacity
Nativism
determiners, prepositions, conjunctions are examples of what kind of words
function words
Language Acquisition is essentially a habit
behavioursim
adding extra information to a sentence
adjunction
what are the 2 goals of data collection?
naturalness and representativeness
processing is carried out by neurons that are connected to other neurons in a network
Information processing approach or
Parallel distributed processing
using regular rules of grammar to irregular items
overgeneralization
what is the role of CDS?
attracts attention to problematic forms and actively involves the child in conversation