Talk: Language acquisition
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rename the article ?
In my experience, this field has been and is called "Child's Acquisition of Language" to distinguish it from, say, adults learning a second language.
- There are 3 very closely-related ideas here: "learning a second language", "initial acquisition of language by children from adults", and "how did all these languages get started ?" (Origin of language). They are all kinds of language acquisition. How do we avoid repeating much of the same stuff in 3 different articles ? --DavidCary 02:19, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Should language development be separate from this? If not, should this be renamed to cover both the acquisition and the subsequent development, and also the development of languages other than the first? Angela. 05:35, 30 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- (has this already been merged ?)
other discussion
I'm terribly sorry if I've made a good deal of errors with this entry! I'm new to Wikipedia and still trying to get a better idea of what needs to be done.-Devotchka
- The most popular opinion is that language acquisition results from both nurture and nature. This theory was introduced by Noam Chomsky.
The two sentences don't work for me. The first doesn't really say anything, and the second is too broad, I think. I'll try to reword them better; please check that I don't totally change what you were trying to say.---- Then welcome and relax. You are only making the same kind of mistakes almost all of us have as beginners. RoseParks
Argument from the Poverty of Stimulus
The characterisation of the Argument from the Poverty of Stimulus is just plain wrong. Chomsky and others have made it clear that it's not about *degraded* input (incomplete or ungrammatical utterances) but about grammatical phenomena that cannot in principle be learned on the basis of positive data alone. To reduce it to degraded input sets up a straw man and misleads people. This needs to be thought through. I recommend the article on the APS in Kasher's volume _The Chomskyan Turn_ as a very good explanation of the argument and its role in Chomsky's view of first language acquisition.
what is aquisition
etc.
Statistical methods for studies on first language acquisition
http://www.biostat.sdu.dk/~wv/firstlanguage.html
nine stages of Second Language Learning http://www.bankstreet.edu/literacyguide/ellstages.html
Assisting English as a Second Language (E.S.L.) Students http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/kindergarten/kindlang.html
"Thinking before you speak" "Researchers have found that five-month-old babies can comprehend concepts for which they have not yet learned words, thus answering the age-old question: Which comes first, an idea or the language to express it?" http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/001977.html http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1091139009712&call_pageid=968867505381&col=969048872038
"Dogs Similar to Children When Learning Language."
http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/001812.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31130-2004Jun10.html
Language acquisition How did you learn to speak your native language? http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/acquisition.html
Proposed Experiment in
Concretized Learning
by Win Wenger
http://winwenger.com/part51.htm
"First Language Acquisition" http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/ChildLangAcquisition.htm
