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Process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language , as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
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Noam Chomsky
10 linksAmerican linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist.
American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist.
He bases his argument on observations about human language acquisition and describes a "poverty of the stimulus": an enormous gap between the linguistic stimuli to which children are exposed and the rich linguistic competence they attain.
Language
4 linksStructured system of communication.
Structured system of communication.
Humans acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children generally speak fluently by approximately three years old.
Statistical learning in language acquisition
3 linksAbility for humans and other animals to extract statistical regularities from the world around them to learn about the environment.
Ability for humans and other animals to extract statistical regularities from the world around them to learn about the environment.
Although statistical learning is now thought to be a generalized learning mechanism, the phenomenon was first identified in human infant language acquisition.
Universal grammar
5 linksTheory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.
Theory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.
When linguistic stimuli are received in the course of language acquisition, children then adopt specific syntactic rules that conform to UG.
Competition model
3 linksThe Competition Model is a psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing, developed by Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney (1982).
Language acquisition device
3 linksThe Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s.
Second-language acquisition
2 linksProcess by which people learn a second language.
Process by which people learn a second language.
Adults who learn a second language differ from children learning their first language in at least three ways: children are still developing their brains whereas adults have mature minds, and adults have at least a first language that orients their thinking and speaking.
Language acquisition by deaf children
0 linksLanguage acquisition is a natural process in which infants and children develop proficiency in the first language or languages that they are exposed to.
Grammar
1 linksIts set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words.
Its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words.
Fluent speakers of a language variety or lect have effectively internalized these constraints, the vast majority of which – at least in the case of one's native language(s) – are acquired not by conscious study or instruction but by hearing other speakers.
Nim Chimpsky
1 linksNeam "Nim" Chimpsky (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee and the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition at Columbia University.