Ant 103 1st Edition Lecture 8Outline of Last Lecture I. 5 subsystems of languageA. PhonologyB. MorphologyC. SyntaxD. SemanticsE. Pragmatics Outline of Current Lecture I. Language acquisitionA. CapacityB. Language acquisition deviceII. Language socializationA. How does it happen?B. When does it happen? Does it stop?Current LectureAll humans have a capacity for language.Another way of saying “language acquisition device” is language instinct. We don’t need to learn everything like we would if we were to learn a new language now. Learning a new language is harder the older we get because our language receptors are active and used up at such a young age. Chomsky says that a “universal grammar” is hard-wired into the brain. Language receptors in the brain notice the language being spoken around them. Language acquisition is like autocorrect. From the first time we heard our native language spoken our language receptors were activated. These receptors fill in the gaps of language automatically. However, language acquisition is not always accurate. Language socialization is how we become prominent speakers of our native language. We learn how to talk in society from home, school, and work. Each one of these environments has their own language we learn just by being there. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.An example of this is slang. Slang is different in different cultures and is not something that we are taught. Slang is something we pick up on from being around it. Language socialization helps us determine what is appropriate and what is not. For example, in middle and high school it wasinappropriate and unprofessional to use the word “I” in school papers. This is something we learned through language socialization. Also, just like how autocorrect makes mistakes more often than not, sometimes what we learn about language in our culture overrides what our brain assumes and we have to make the correction
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