Thursday, 4 September 2014

English Language lesson 1- Horizon

How we learn to speak
CLA- children language acquisition

why do we talk?
  • language defines us as humans 
  • speak + language distinguishes each other 
  • sophisticated skill to talk 
  • children learn language with minimal effort 
  • learn in a natural process 
  • Lenon Burg- if a child is not surrounded by language for a specific period of time
  • need to be exposed to language 
  • CLA (Nature-Nurture) 
  •  How we learn to speak is still a mystery 
  • Deb Roy- scientist (discovered how children speak)
  • recorded results from an investigation-Speak home project 
  • Babbling to single words
  • single words 
  • two words
  • complex grammatical stages occur
  • way we talk to children, effects on their life ( positive re-enforcement)
  • parents simplify their speech 
  • elongating the pauses between words 
  • parent convergent 
  • diverge (excludes child) 
  • parentese 
  • listening to ontonation (children, animals) 
  • at first their phonological awareness out slips their semantic awareness 
  • as the child's language develops the parents used longer sentences 
  • by the time a child is 5, they will know 5000 words 
  • use determiners 
  • as they grow up they learn 3000 new words 
  • all of this is pointing towards an innate language ( mechanics to speak) 
  • Noam Chomsky- god father of linguistics 
  • sentence, structure, meaning and sounds
  • forbidden experiment
  • Chomsky's language device- LAD
  • born with a blue print for a language


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