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Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Language acquisition involves structures, rules, and representation.
22 de mai. de 2024 · Language Acquisition is an interdisciplinary journal serving the fields of first and second language acquisition. Research published in the journal addresses theoretical questions about language acquisition and language development from a variety of perspectives and a variety of methodological approaches.
- Nativism
- Behaviorism
- Social Constructivism
- Functionalism
- Socioemotional Approach
Chomsky (1957, 1975) perhaps raised the question of language acquisition research. How is it that a child is able to correctly generalize from a finite sample of sentences heard from an unfiltered context the rules of a language, and then apply those rules in such a way that they can correctly produce an infinite number of sentences? In other words...
Prior to nativism, in his book Verbal Behavior, Skinner (1957) suggested that we learn language by making and reinforcing associations through the process of conditioning. In this view, language is learned piecemeal using the same innate mechanisms for learning other behaviors and gaining knowledge. New or previously heard instances of language are...
While nativism gained momentum, the influence of pragmatic-based philosophers (Wittgenstein 1953; Astin 1960), emphasizing meaning and the role of language acquisition to achieve social ends, did not disappear. The Vygotskian perspective on language as a cultural tool and the fundamental role of social and interpersonal interaction in development a...
From social pragmatists and social constructivists, a functional or usage-based perspective of language acquisition emerged, one that would also suggest that structure is not innate but emerges from interaction and use. For proponents of this view, what evolved, what is universal is not an innate language faculty, but social cognitive skills, again...
For nonnativists, the picture that emerges, thus far, is that human beings have evolved social and cognitive abilities that facilitate attention to social agents, social bonding, and interaction, creating spaces and social contexts in which cultural learning, including language, can occur (i.e., conditioning, frequency effects, priming, pattern-fin...
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Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the ability to comprehend and produce language, either as their first or second (third, etc.) language. The study of language acquisition provides evidence for theoretical linguistics and has practical applications in language pedagogy.
The research published in Language Acquisition makes a clear contribution to linguistic theory by increasing our understanding of how language is acquired. The journal focuses on the acquisition of syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology, and considers theoretical, experimental, and computational perspectives.
This course is an introduction to language acquisition, a subfield of linguistics whose goal is to understand how humans acquire the ability to speak and understand a language—a highly complex task that is routinely and seemingly effortlessly accomplished by competent (native) speakers of the language in the first few years of life and without explicit instruction.
13 de jul. de 2023 · Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of third (and more) language acquisition and processing.
