Psych: Language Development

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Goldin-Meadow

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Goldin-Meadow (1997): Home Signing

give vs. eat vs. sleep, predicate frames, thought can be developed w/o language

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Tomasello

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Tomasello (2000): Verb Island Demonstration

ernie + big bird + meeking, joint product alternative, children stick close to input

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Marcus et al.

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Marcus et al. (1999): Algebraic Rule Learning

ABB vs. ABA, infants preferred inconsistent sentences

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Stiles et al.

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Stiles et al.: Pre- and Perinatal Strokes on Development

brain plasticity in infancy

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Pinker

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Pinker (1994): Language Instinct Proposal

language is like spider web

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Gold's Theorem

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Gold's Theorem (1967)

complex languages cannot be learned on the basis of positive evidence alone; supports poverty of stimulus argument

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Peal & Lambert

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Peal & Lambert (1962)

bilinguals pwn monos on cognitive tasks

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Ben-Zeev

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Ben-Zeev (1997)

bilinguals pwn monos at tasks that involve finding rules and determining when to use those rules

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Bialystok

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Bialystok

bilinguals better than monos at controlling attention - executive functions

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Arguments for UG

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1. Poverty of the stimulus
2. Parameter setting
3. Absence of "embarrassing errors"
4. FOXP2

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Arguments for Learning

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1. Children initially stick close to input
2. Pattern detection and intention detection