LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Critical Period Hypothesis, Stanford Prison Experiment, Eric Lenneberg

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

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How birds get their songs: some birds have innate songs (cuckoo, others need exposure to learn the songs of their species (songbirds, parrots, hummingbirds) Stages in song development: 15-35 days: silent period, 25-40 days: practice period (babbling, 35-80 days: recognizable and other tunes, as of then: correct songs are in place, further development to full song (up to. Argument was that young people who suffer brain damage or lose a part of their brain during surgery will recover language (if that brain area contained the language area) Older people will not (or not so easily) Explanation: within the critical period, the brain can rebuild language: the forbidden experiment. Deprive children from language input for different periods of time and see whether after that they can still learn language. Psammetichos, frederick ii of hohenstaufen, charles iv of. Recent examples- stanford prison experiment (guards and prisoners), milgram experiment (electrical shocks) Genie could learn: words, simple combinations (not much morphology or syntax)