PSY210H5 Lecture 6: PSY210 Lecture 6 Notes
9 Feb 2017
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Only need to have 3 references in your list. What can genie tell us about language development. There must have been critical periods to learning language. She didn"t have environmental input or experiences. No, because once the money ran out the abandoned her, conflict of interest (no informed consent from a parent), hard to find the value/validity in the experiment. Caregivers selectively reinforce babbling sounds that are most like adult speech. Criticisms: would need a lot of (cid:498)stimulus-response(cid:499) pairings, not supported by naturalistic studies, difficult to predict majority of utterances, language develops similarly across cultures. Language acquisition device (lad) innate biological structure. Support: linguistic universals, children apply rules of grammar to novel words, language is learned more easily in the critical period, children can learn language even when input is fragmented or incomplete. Animals don"t learn language as readily or successfully as humans.
