PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Behaviorism, Noam Chomsky, Fallacy
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Is a system of symbols, sounds, meanings, and rules of combination that allows for communication among humans. Sentences: strings of morphemes and phrases that express a thought or intention. Gestures (often involving the hands or ngers) 100 basic phonemes, english language has 40 phonemes, every human being can recognize all 100 of these phonemes. 50 000 morphemes in the english language. B. f. skinner argued that children imitate the utterances of their parents. Skinner suggests that children receive differential reinforcement for speech sounds. Chomsky argued that language acquisition appears to be universal across culture (could not be accounted for by learning) Critical periods assumed that an organism must develop a function within a limited time frame or it will not develop at all. Children easily learn second languages, adults have great dif culty. Genie was isolated as a child and was unable to learn complex language as an adolescent.
