ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Second-Language Acquisition, Reinforcement, Patricia K. Kuhl
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First language acquisition (fla) & second language acquisition (sla) Fla: prelinguistic stage: pre-natal language experience: (babies = citizens of the world) Prosody, rhythm, maternal voice: receptive ability (= hearing): Already excellent at birth > in-born faculty. Experience with a specific language is needed for less salient discriminations . Cooing (0-4 m) = still pre-linguistic: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=m-ymanhajn8 (ted talk patricia kuhl) One-word stage/single-word utterances: 1st word" around 12m, context-bound, holophrastic stage, vocabulary size, influencing factors https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=taecz5hoh5m ted talk (deb roy) Two-word stage: vocabulary items are combined in new ways. Imperatives, declaratives, affirmative statements no questions / negations. Two-word stage multiple-word speech two-word stage: frequent combinations, e. g. daddy sit agent + action action + object drive car. Mummy sock agent + object toy floor entity + location entity + attribute crayon big: telegraphic speech (betw. Emergence of sentence building: cathy build house, this shoe all wet, andrew want that, cat drink milk. Three main theoretical positions on language acquisition: behaviorism.
