ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: American Sign Language, Francine Patterson, Noam Chomsky
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Language acquisition: universal grammar and innateness, noam chomsky, learning in stages (babbling, one-word, two-word, telegraphic, l2 acquisition - formation of separate grammars. Non-human primate research: vervet monkeys, system of alarm calls, prevarication, productivity, no displacement (cid:862)viki(cid:863) (cid:894)cathy and keith hayes(cid:895) Nim chimpsky: herbert terrace, laura ann pettito, video-taped asl sessions, response to non-verbal cues, no sign of syntax or grammar, (cid:862)give ora(cid:374)ge (cid:373)e give eat ora(cid:374)ge (cid:373)e eat ora(cid:374)ge give (cid:373)e eat ora(cid:374)ge give (cid:373)e you(cid:863) Descriptive linguistics: human language is open communication system.
