• The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported...
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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...
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  • second-language acquisition (SLA) is to shed light on how people who already know one language learn a second language. The field of second-language acquisition...
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    knowledge of language. Chomsky in 1960s proposed the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) as a hypothetical tool for language acquisition that only humans...
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  • father of American Sign Language linguistics, disagreed that the emergence of ISN is evidence of a language acquisition device. Stokoe also questions assertions...
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  • need to assume an innate language acquisition device exists (see above). Rather than a LAD evolved specifically for language, empiricists believe that...
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  • Innateness hypothesis (category Language acquisition)
    least some knowledge of linguistic structure. On this hypothesis, language acquisition involves filling in the details of an innate blueprint rather than...
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  • Language acquisition device (i.e. "brain") Innateness hypothesis - in language acquisition Language bioprogram theory In the cognitive sciences, Language module...
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  • Statistical language acquisition, a branch of developmental psycholinguistics, studies the process by which humans develop the ability to perceive, produce...
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    and Data Acquisition Systems can be streamed via Bluetooth. DAQ device drivers are needed for the DAQ hardware to work with a PC. The device driver performs...
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    learning aspects of a second language (L2). If language learning is a cognitive process, rather than a language acquisition device, as the school led by Stephen...
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  • closely related to those of language emergence and acquisition. Is there a language acquisition device: How localized is language in the brain? Is there a...
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  • field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can only achieve native-like fluency in a language before a certain age. It is the...
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  • Viki (chimpanzee) (category Individual apes involved in language studies)
    Noam Chomsky called it a "language acquisition device" innate to humans which allows for our use of the matured "language organ" or faculty (See Hauser...
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  • children, language acquisition is delayed until the time that they are exposed to a sign language or until they begin using amplification devices such as...
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  • Chomsky's claim that all languages are based ultimately on a hard-wired mechanism known as the language acquisition device (LAD). Wolfe argues that speech...
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  • § Lamina-associating domains and nucleolar-associating domains Language acquisition device, part of the human brain structure as proposed by Noam Chomsky...
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  • a pattern of language acquisition in children, or a universal grammar. Chomsky labeled this pattern as the language acquisition device. He also refers...
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  • Universal grammar (category Language acquisition)
    grammar of a possible human language could be. When linguistic stimuli are received in the course of language acquisition, children then adopt specific...
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  • physical localizability. Drawing from Noam Chomsky's idea of the language acquisition device and other work in linguistics as well as from the philosophy...
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  • typically receive, and must therefore have an innate language-learning module, or language acquisition device. However, Chomsky's poverty of the stimulus argument...
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  • Gestures in language acquisition are a form of non-verbal communication involving movements of the hands, arms, and/or other parts of the body. Children...
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    Nicholas G. (January 2011). "Genetic Variance in a Component of the Language Acquisition Device: ROBO1 Polymorphisms Associated with Phonological Buffer Deficits"...
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    Steven Pinker (category Philosophers of language)
    the psycholinguistic community, the idea of innateness and a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) were seen as problematic [...] Now that generation of GG...
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  • study to look at this issue. They point to programs like the Language Acquisition Device which can emulate human interaction. Some have suggested a need...
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  • the generativity of language shows that it cannot simply be learned, that there must be some innate "language acquisition device". Many have seen this...
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  • Monitor Theory. According to Krashen, the acquisition of a language is a natural process; whereas learning a language is a conscious one. In the former, the...
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  • learning mechanism, the phenomenon was first identified in human infant language acquisition. The earliest evidence for these statistical learning abilities comes...
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  • Poverty of the stimulus (category Language acquisition)
    Infancy: Does the Empirical Evidence Support a Domain Specific Language Acquisition Device?". Philosophical Psychology. 21 (5): 641–671. doi:10.1080/09515080802412321...
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  • According to Chomsky, a human child's mind is equipped with a "language acquisition device" formed by inborn mental properties called "linguistic universals"...
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