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Language Aquisition
Ling 130 - Final Exam Review Part 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Did Victor respond well to Itard's methods of teaching language? How did Itard test Victor's ability to go beyond memorization -- that is, to use language (more or less) "creatively" | Victor began to pick up words and string them together in new unorthodox patterns. He did go beyond memorization but with only very basic grammar. |
| Describe Genie's apparent linguistic abilities at the time of her "discovery." What explanation is given for the state of her language? | She barely spoke or made any noises. She was silent most of the time. |
| During the project, what was Curtiss' view about the likelihood of Genie's acquiring a language and what were the implications for the existence of a Critical Period? | They feared that because she was learning lang. after the critical period she mind never be able to speak and tell her story. |
| Give 2 examples of statements in the tape that Genie produced..? What stage do these represent? | "Spot chew glove" and "applesauce buy store" These represent telegraphic stage because meaning is evident but only basics of grammar are present |
| In what ways did Genie's vocabulary differ from that of a small child? | She had vocabulary far more advanced than children at those stages having a multitude of words for emotions and colors |
| What proposal had Eric Lenneberg made regarding the capacity for language acquisition? | Critical Period Hypothesis: children must acquire their first language by puberty or they will never be able to learn from subsequent exposure |
| What is the forbidden experiment? | To see human nature stripped of society and culture ( in confinement) and to see if he/she could learn a language. This is a situation no one would set out to create on purpose. |
| How do children learn language? | Children learn language through imitation , reinforcement, and structure imput in conjunction with one another. These all serve as avenues to supplement the Universal Grammmar they are born with. |
| What is Aphasia? | language disorder that affects a person's ability to produce and understand language |
| Differences betw. Brocas and Wernickes aphasia? | Wernickes affects the back of the left hemisphere affecting ability to make sense: long strings of jargon that sound like sentences but make no sense. Brocas affects the front left hemisphere affecting grammar resulting in meaningful but choppy sentences |
| Dyslexia affect on Spelling ? | It afftects spelling because patients have poor memory and can remember how to spell words, trouble linking words and sounds eg. door - dor, phone - fown |
| WhAT IS dyslexia? | Dyslexia is a language based disorder. |
| Dyslexia and Punctuation? | Erratic punctuation use, forgetfulness of punctuation eg. forgeting the ? at the end of a question, or not putting commas to separate nouns in sequence. |
| Dylexia and Handwriting? | they suffer from Disgraphia can't remember stroke order, Illegible handwriting, Unfinished words or letters eg. writing d as b or p as q.;anims for animals |
| Dyslexia and Sequencing Ideas? | Difficulty sequencing ideas makes it difficult to recall events and the order which they happened eg. if they get into a fight they won't remember which person started it, or if they get directions somewhere they will mix them up and end up lost. |
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