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Language Acquisition: Little kids and big kids

Language Acquisition: Little kids and big kids. Piaget. Who is he? What did he suggest about language learning in kids? If you can’t think about it you can’t say it. Seriation Object permanence What. Piaget. What evidence is there against his theories?

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Language Acquisition: Little kids and big kids

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  1. Language Acquisition: Little kids and big kids

  2. Piaget • Who is he? • What did he suggest about language learning in kids? • If you can’t think about it you can’t say it. • Seriation • Object permanence • What

  3. Piaget • What evidence is there against his theories? • Hard to connect language learning with intellectual development after 18 months.

  4. Behaviorism • What is behaviorism? • Pavlov’s dog and pigeon’s • How does this apply to language learning? • Parent, or interlocuter rewards correct utterances by child, incorrect utterances not rewarded. • What’s the problem? • Kids don’t repeat exactly what adults say!??!? • Kids use and apply rules that are not taught.

  5. Chomsky, Innatism • What did Noam Chomsky suggest about language learning? • LAD, Language Acquisition Device • Kids, and adults hear language, • Computer in the box decodes it • Computer creates rules and sets parameters • Computer can generate limitless combinations of grammatically correct utterances based on these rules.

  6. Chomsky, Innatism • What is the evidence for and against this theory? • + Groups of people spontaneously form languages without overt planning, i.e. creoles • + Brain damage to certain areas causes specific language problems with structure • + Feral children • - language must be directed at child for them to learn, watching TV alone won’t work!!!!???

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