nativism
- Created by: serena.sangha
- Created on: 19-11-22 10:57
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- innatism or nativism
- children are born with the innate ability to learn a language
- children have the ability to identify patterns and apply rules to new contexts
- social cues and interactions are less necessary
- LAD- inborn structures within our brain that gives us a natural way to organise language (theorised)
- poverty of stimulus- children are not exposed to enough language to be able to acquire it
- universal grammar- our "blank" slate has already been written on before we leave the womb, allowing us to already know sounds
- nativism explains....
- 1. children take in information quickly
- 2. children of different cultures go through the same stages
- 3. the exsitence of grammatical features common in most languages
- 2. children of different cultures go through the same stages
- 1. children take in information quickly
- noam chomsky challenges skinner with the theory of universal grammar
- he believes that language wasn't necessarily learnt from the environment. humans acquire language through innate functions
- argues that the environment (stimulus) cannot teach us syntax (poverty of stimulus)
- he believes that language wasn't necessarily learnt from the environment. humans acquire language through innate functions
- KEY RESEARCH 13 (BARD AND SACHS)
- studied a child called Jim who had deaf parents. Jim had very little vocab and knew a little sign language
- Jim watched lots of TV and listened to the radio but didn't pick up any language
- after seeing a speech therapist Jim's vocabulary rapidly increased
- this questions behaviourism and innatism
- after seeing a speech therapist Jim's vocabulary rapidly increased
- Jim watched lots of TV and listened to the radio but didn't pick up any language
- studied a child called Jim who had deaf parents. Jim had very little vocab and knew a little sign language
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