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ERIC ED021239: Suprasentential and Substitution Tests in First Lang... |
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In the current debate about the development of language |
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in children, the author agrees with those psycholinguists |
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who emphasize the role of "imitation followed by |
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analogical extension." That is to say, that if there are |
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inborn discovery procedures for the acquisition of |
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language, they are distributional rather than |
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transformational in nature. On the basis of observations |
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of monolingual and bilingual children, the author feels |
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that "the memorization of a fixed linguistic model |
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associated with a constant non-linguistic behavior is at |
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the root of the child's language acquisition." It is, |
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therefore, open to question whether children acquire |
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language by forming rules of a transformational type. The |
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example of language learning ability in brain damaged or |
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retarded children would indicate that language is |
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acquired primarily through imitation, analogy, and |
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substitution processes rather than by rule learning. It |
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follows from this argument that children interpret |
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ambigious sentences by a process of tentative |
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substitutions to test co-occurrence and distribution |
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restrictions rather than by successively applying two |
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different grammatical rules. It is also felt that it is |
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pointless to construct grammars out of and for children's |
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utterances.(JD) |
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Date Published: 2015-11-30 16:29:17 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED021239 |
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Item Size: 30736992 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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