VII: Language Development

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VII Language Development 

• A. Language Acquisition
• 1. Learning Words
• 2. The Tacit nature of grammar
• 3. Stages of learning language

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Stages

• 1. 1 word stage (12 mos)
• 2. 2 word stage (18-24)
• 3. Telegraphic speech
• 4. By 24 mos., rapid development

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B. Explaining language development

• a. Behaviorist perspective (skinner)
• b. Are we hardwired for speech?
• -speech production
• -Noam Chomsky
• -Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
• -speech perception
• -critical period hypothesis

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C. Does Language Influence our thinking?

• Linguistic Relativity Whorfs hypothesis
• -language determines the way we think?
• Q Could you think without language?

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D. Animal language?

• Koko
• Washoe
• Others?