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Factors affecting first language acquisition
1. There are two main approaches to explaining first language acquisition: behavioristic approaches and the nativist approach. Behavioristic approaches view language acquisition as learned through stimuli, responses, and reinforcement. The nativist approach views humans as born with an innate language acquisition device that predisposes them to learn language. 2. Key issues in understanding language acquisition include determining the relationship between nature and nurture, competence in a language versus actual performance, and the roles of imitation, practice, linguistic input, and discourse function in acquiring language skills. 3. While behaviorists see language as learned through environmental conditioning, nativists believe humans are born with specialized brain circuits and mental structures that allow for innate, rule-based
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- 1. Factors Affecting First Language Acquisition
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- 6. Theories Behavioristic Language Acquisition Functional Nativist
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- 8. stimuli Response reinforc ed Habitual, cond itioned Linguistic responses
- 9. • Verbal Behavior 1 • Burrhus Frederic Skinner Skinner’s Box
- 10. Operant Conditioning Instrumental Conditioning Reinforcing Skinnerian Conditioning Stimulus Organism Operant Reinforcement Maintained
- 11. Remember: VB is controlledby consequences. Punishing Rewarding consequences: consequences: weakened (and maintained extinguished) behaviour behaviour
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- 13. • Representational Mediation Theory 2 • Charles Osgood Linguistic stimulus elicits response Mentalism Cognitive-Rational Theory
- 14. • Word AssociationNorms 3 • Jenkins and PAlermo Frames: You shall know a word by the company it keeps. Phrase-structure grammar Stimulus-Response equivalences
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- 16. Predisposes to language acquisition Bornwith a built-in device Language is innately determined
- 17. Species-Specific •Eric Lenneberg • Unique to the 2 • Washoe species • Communication • Lana system is part of the genetic make-up 1 3
- 18. Little Black Box •Noam Chomsly Specialized Circuits Human Specialized Instinct Genes Human Speech
- 19. After Begin to puberty Starts Vacuu function our functioning m from in ability to Language Acquisition when our different acquire ways we are environment after we language immediate Device still a native reach six seems to infants language years of reduced be age again
- 20. Born with orienting/ Organize categorizing linguistics structures Rules of a particular language Rule Formation
- 21. Issues about theNature of Language Acquisition
- 22. Competence and Performance Nature andNurture Imitation and Practice Form (Input) and Function (Discourse)