Acquiring the Human Language-Playing the Language Game

1.What arguments in support of words as an innate ability are brought up in the enter?This video is about a great riddle how do kidren acquire dustup without seeming to happen upon it and how do they do so many things with so little life experience.2.Explain the ambiguity of the query asked by Jill de Villiers to both children and graduate students When did the boy say he s lotdalise himself? Why is this enquiry ambiguous and why is it enkindle to note that this question is ambiguous?Question was When did the boy say he hurt himself? and there are 2 answers to this question. If focus on When said, the answer is in the bathtub. further when it focus on When f all tolden, the answer is climbing the tree And it is very interesting because they found that children impart give only 1 answer when disposed(p) unambiguous sentence When did the boy say HOW he hurt himself, in the bathtub. By this prove, we can conclude that a child must curb some kind of knowledge of syntactic structure because nobody had ever taught the child about this.3.List some of the fundamental questions regarding terminology learning/ delivery acquisition that are discussed in the film and explain how are linguists exhausting to answer these questions. (What questions do linguists ask and what kind of grounds do they run intoing for for to answer them?) The original theory on how languages are knowledgeable was it is learned by imitation. However, linguists found that child not only imitate gravid but produces brand-new sentences. And the fundamental questions were raised, if we dont learn by imitation, how do we learn? So linguists try to prove that acquiring language is different from learning otherwise things by some experiments.4.Mention some of the evidence in the film presented as evidence AGAINST the imitation theory of language learning.Child can produce brand-new sentence and they make errors. They can understand quite complex sentence in early age.5.The film (Ch omsky) claim that acquiring language is different from kinds of learning. What does he mean?It style we seem to learn language with different say from leaning other difficult things such as playing the trumpet and riding bicycle. It is not learned by practice, or by imitation.6.What proof is there that analogy is not the explanation for depression language learning?With the sentence I painted the red barn, we can substitute color word, and it is acceptable. If we transfer the last two words, it is still acceptable. So by analogy, child will extend this to other verb see and create new sentence. I proverb a read barn. And a concept of analogy doesnt reckon for switching last two words, since I saw a dress red is broken sentence. And also, with sentence Taro ate it means he ate something but this something is not his shoes or hat. Another proof that analogy is not the explanation of first language learning is the verb provoke can mean differently in the sentence such as John grows tomatoes and John grows. Analogy is wildly broken and cannot explain first language learning.7.Observe the details of the experiment with the 16-month old babies who are shown Cookie monstrosity and Big wench. Explain the experiments design, including the question posed by the researchers and the conclusions they reach regarding childrens acquisition of syntax based on the results of this study.The experiment design is showing two films simultaneously to babies. And asks to find the same view with the explanation, Cookie monster washing Big Bird and Big Bird feeding Cookie Monster. The questions behind the study was will the child look more at the screen that matches the language that they are hearing. And the result surprisingly show that they understand the order of the information.8.An extended section of the film discusses how children learn new words. Explain the point(s) illustrated by the following examples -The child who calls his own blackguard Nunu, then applies the word Nunu to several other things (another dog, cow, slippers, salad) Overgeneralization The Gavagai Problem (the big track down on a billboard) Assumption Child labeling an item a flimmick, a closed flimmick and a spud Child expects object labels to refer to the tout ensemble object Children discussing the meaning of the word alive and the one child deciding that a car must be alive A child picks out a category that is relevantly alike9. The film moves to Papua new-sprung(prenominal) Guinea (home of 750 languages spoken by 3,000,000 people) and discusses language universals and then Universal Grammar. -What aspects of language are candidates for language universals? Subject, Object, Verb What are examples are presented in the film as evidence of Universal Grammar? There are certain kinds of mistake that children never seem to make. (ex. What did you eat your egg and?)10. Explain what Chomsky means when he says that all children are pre-programmed in advance of experien ce they know fixed, invariant morphologic principles of language.Capacity to learn language is deeply engraved in the mind and children are not taught language, they just do it.