15 Questions
What are the recursive mechanisms that allow sentences to go indeterminately in language acquisition?
Relativization, complementation, and coordination
What are the two main guiding principles in first-language acquisition?
Speech perception always precedes speech production, and language is learned gradually
What are the tools that one needs to acquire to use language successfully?
Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and vocabulary
What is the fundamental difference between animals and humans in their motivation to learn language?
Animals are motivated by physical reward, while humans learn language to create a new type of communication
What was the result of the study conducted on Victor of Aveyron?
Victor was able to learn a few words, but ultimately never fully acquired language
What did researchers conclude about Genie's ability to learn language?
Genie was too old to learn how to speak productively, although she was still able to comprehend language
What is the main focus of nativists, such as Chomsky, in understanding language acquisition?
The biologically given characteristics of the human brain that guide the process of language acquisition in infants
What is the difference between first-language acquisition and second-language acquisition?
First-language acquisition refers to infants' acquisition of their native language, while second-language acquisition deals with the acquisition of additional languages.
What is the argument of empiricists like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke regarding language acquisition?
Language is acquired through sensory experience.
What is B. F. Skinner's theory on language acquisition?
Language is acquired through operant conditioning.
What was Rudolf Carnap's Aufbau?
An attempt to learn all knowledge from sense datum, using the notion of 'remembered as similar' to bind them into clusters, which would eventually map into language.
What is the term used by Hockett to describe the design feature of human language that allows for the creation of completely novel messages?
Productivity
What is the argument made by Chomsky against Skinner's idea of language acquisition through operant conditioning?
Skinner failed to account for the role of syntax in language competence
What is the key aspect that distinguishes humans from other beings in terms of language acquisition?
Capacity to acquire and use language
What is the argument made by Noam Chomsky against the term 'learning' used by Skinner to describe language acquisition through operant conditioning?
It does not account for the role of syntax in language competence
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