PSYC2010 Lecture Notes - Fall 2016 Lecture 36 - Behaviorism, Animal language, Speech-language pathology

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All language have vocabularies divided into categories that include nouns and verbs. Children from around the world acquire grammatical forms in the same way and at the same rate. Deaf children develop language even when they have: minimal input, later than hearing children, but do develop, homesign. Isolation: children who are socially isolated have a tenuous mastery of language. Age: children are superior to adults in acquiring both first and second languages. Thus, there seems to be a critical period or sensitive period during which children should be exposed to a language in order to master it. With age, the nervous system loses its flexibility, so that by puberty, the organization of the brain is fixed making language learning difficult. Proficiency in a foreign language is related to the age of first exposure. Grammatical proficiency in sign language is related to first exposure to sign language.

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