Stephen Fry- CLA notes

• Kids speak from the age of 2
• same in all languages 
• Victor was a child who took part in the forbidden experiment 
• vocal cords needed to work 
• struggled with language 
• Steven Pinker ( mentioned with CLA)
• context is significant 
• Children associate context with things they need 
• kids play with language ( from story books) 
• Rhyming couplets, poetry, sounds 
• WUG test- Berko Gleson 1958 
• WUG test supports Chomskys LAD theory 
• observers paradox 
• added 's' to pluralise 
• added 'ed' to make it pass tense 
• using grammatical rules to pluralise and simplify it
• the amount of language that parents apply for there children is crucial
• actively coaching them it doesn't always work, better learnt in a Natural process
• children use repetition to signify meaning 
• language defines our identity 
• Phonology