LING 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Critical Period Hypothesis, Linguistic Universal, Speech Perception
30 Mar 2016
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Ater puberty age, it would decline the ability to learn. Acquisiion is inhibited: depends on the learning environment. L1 afects the ability to learn other languages, because l1 might not match the sound systems. How people expose to the new language and how much input they put into it. Proiciency might not be lenient to the input. 240 naive italian speakers arrived in canada between 2 and 23. People before their puberty tend to have less accents than adults. Speech percepion from language universal to language speciic. Becomes more language speciic ater 6 to 9 months. Speech percepion: similariies and dissimilariies of l1 and l2 gestural paterns. Discriminaion of sounds in terms of naive and nonnaive categories. Perceptual targets to guide sensorimotor learning of l2 sounds. Each l2 sound assimilated to a: category-goodness diference. Both l2 sounds assimilated to same or single-category.
