User:Teamwork341

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Introduction

first paragraph

Andrew A wants to work on this! Can someone post the link or URL to the Wikipedia page? I am having a really hard time finding it. Andrewz1 (talk) 20:08, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

overview of whole article

main domains of language

possible stubs or links to existing articles: phonetics, phonology, lexicon, semantics, syntax, grammar

I will be working on a stub for rapid fading if anyone wants to add to this.

Domains of Language

Phonology

neonates: Janet Werker, Pat Kuhl, distinguishing own from other languages (via prosodic information)

6 months: Peter Juczyk, sensitivity to non-native contrasts reducing, vowels first, recognition of own name (check Saxton: CM thinks it's 7 months), babbling (canonical or reduplicated and variegated; jargoning) *Allie Glock wants to work on phonology at 6 months

10 months: Pat Kuhl, own phonemes pretty much categorized, consonants now done, word comprehension getting going

12 months: first words produced, what's their phonology like? overlap with babbling

Lexicon

comprehension/production lag

content vs function elements

early semantic errors like over-extension

numbers over time, all the way up to a literate high school graduate (maybe a link to a stub on vocabulary estimation)

maybe smoosh morphology into the lexicon (although much of it links words to syntax)

Syntax

comprehension/production lag

two-word utterances

telegraphic speech

various specific constructions

Research Methods

HAS, habituation (Eimas et al, 1971; Werker)

preferential looking

elicited production (Berko Gleason with wugs)

ERPs and other neuro-imaging techniques (see Saxton's ch 10)

Big Issues

nature/nurture

Critical period

Eric Lenneburg

Feral/Isolated Children

Genie

human uniqueness

Hockett's features

I will be working on a stub for semanticity Jesusserrano

Animal Communication

Bees

vervet calls

Theories of Language Acquisition

We need to figure out how to organize the prose that's already in the article. It covers a number of explanations of language development in different degrees of depth.

Biographies

Enter name here

Let's make a list of names we think are important. Then someone can go check to see if that person's name requires just linking to an already existing bio on Wikipedia, or starting a stub, or editing something already started.

Comments

How about a list for the article as well? developmentalists, important dates, classic experiments