Language Flashcards
1
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Behaviourist view (skinner) on nature/nurture language
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Nurture, trial and error, modelling other people. It’s a skill to learn
2
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Chomsky view nature/nurture debate
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Nature. He’s saying there’s an innate capacity to learn language
3
Q
Gene found to be important in language development
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FOXP2
4
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Evidence for innateness theory
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-convergence towards same grammar pattern
-uniformity in language acquisition with the years: inborn maturation plan
-poverty of stimulus (not enough language samples to to acquire all samples)
5
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Surface dyslexia
A
Impaired at producing irregular words. Reading happens letter by letter
6
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Phonological dyslexia
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Impaired at reading non words or new words, they compare with their mental dictionary. Difficulty reading letter by letter
