LING444 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Phonology, Language Acquisition, Intonation (Linguistics)
20 Nov 2018
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Rationalist: more concerned with theory of language acquisition. Empiricist: more concerned with actual developmental data. Rico: border collie trained at max planck institute. Learned language while observing s-r teaching kanzi"s mother, matata using picture keyboard and combining pictures and spoken words. Understands new sentences such as get me the snake picture . Alex: an african gray parrot, trained by irene pepperberg. Identified by word fifty different objects, seven colors, and five shapes, and numbers under 10. Answered questions such as what color? or what shape? . For animals, involves many years of continuous training. Ex: an olympic gymnast training from a young age. For humans infants, don"t actually have to train just need exposure to human language and they pick it up. We can observe how language originates in every child. There has been an explosion of work on the question of language evolution. Children acquire the bulk of language by about 3 years of age.
