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ACQUISITION
TEAM #2
Theory
Central idea
Scientific
Skinner
Innate
Chomsky
Cognitive
Piaget
Cognitive
Lev
Vygotsky
Behaviorism
An American Psychologist
Behaviorists' views:
Stimulus
Response
Feedback
Reinforcement
Based on observations
Unanswered:
Governed
Innateness Theory
By Noam Chomsky (born 1928---Present)
INNATENESS
language
acquisition Device
(LAD) is a postulated
organ of the brain
that is supposed to
function as a
congenital device for
learning symbolic
language (i.e.,
language acquisition).
Universal grammar
We are born with set of rules about language in our brains.
Chomsky says:
The UG does not have the actual rules of each language
but it has PRINCIPLES & PARAMETERS.
Steven Pinker
How Children
learn
Language?
Behaviorist
Innatist
Interactionist
Language
Child
Environment
It is a subset of all
learned behaviors
A clean slate
It is a source of
language models
and provides
selective
reinforcements
Born with
syntactic
knowledge for
analyzing
linguistic input
Uses contextual
clues from
interaction to
process language
The environment
provides
meaningful
contexts for
language input
Comparison of Acquisition Issues
and language use
addressed by Theoretical Models
Conclusion
Humans do have a better biological evolved body
for language
Certain traits such as sound processing are
innate to infants
Children learn language remarkably fast
Interesting patterns are present in child
language acquisition process
Various theories have been proposed
Behaviorist Theory
Innatist Theory
Cognitivist theory
References
www.wikipedia.org
Language Acquisition, Steve Pinker, Draft
version
pandora.cii.wwu.edu
Language Acquisition, Elena Lieven, School of
Psychological Sciences,University of Manchester
Language Acquisition, Michel Frank