Linguis 100 1st Edition Lecture 21 Current Lecture Review for Exam Start reviewing for the second exam The list of terms and other concepts to understand is on D2L I will be posting a copy of it on Grade Buddy as the study guide with the answered terms and questions Language Acquisition 1 L1 or L2 which is first your first language and second language a L2 could also be your third or fourth or fifth language L2 just refers to any other language you learn after your primary one b Second Language Acquisition how adult speakers learn foreign languages c What we will talk about Acquisition mainly in how kids learn to speak and now SLA seen above in how you learn a second language 2 How do kids learn language a Any child born anywhere can learn the language of that land as long as you are exposed to it b How much influence do other people You must interact with other people who already speak it to learn it but we do not mimic exactly what we hear However we do know that they do repeat something s word for word like curse words 3 Revolutionizing linguistics a Children learning languages are born with universal grammar and enable them to avoid making grammatical errors i Kids do make certain errors with their pronunciation or singular to plural or other factors of a language but they are not random The would not make an error with the order of the words or the syntax which tells us that there is something we are born with that triggers the pattern of language in our brain ii How do we look at or learn everything else Is it the same as this theory This is where the theory is criticized iii If you are not exposed to every part of a language you are still able to form and learn basic language We know this because it is infinitely possible to come up with different sentence after different sentence after different sentence b Kids make systematic error They are not random i They have a rule and apply it to everything not knowing the exceptions of the language and irregularity 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 ii They try to test regularity and keep saying it wrong they won t change their way to the right way Kids hear the difference even if they cannot produce the difference 4 Caregiver Speech a Has four major elements that important to know in how a caregiver talks to those they are giving care to usually this is a mother to child but is not always the case i simple sentence structures ii repetition iii paraphrasing iv large reference to here and now otherwise thought of present tense speech 1 Cooing This is what happens in the first few months of an infant learning to speak they cannot form words right away so they start with sounds that usually resemble high vowels like i and u
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