The linguistic genius of babies: what does it mean for grown-ups?.
via The linguistic genius of babies: what does it mean for grown-ups?.
I hope the authors at Teflresearch produce more pieces on primary language uptake. ย Were I to channel and narrow this blog toward greater and more rigorous academic publishing, I would want to arrange around the interest in learning the culture-driven development of metonymy, social grammar, attitudes, and behaviors — all of that to help lift ourselves out of some trouble with one another.
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Thank you for the link. Future articles will be primarily based on adult second language acquisition, although comparisons with first language acquisition are often informative and will continue to feature in the blog. Thank you for your suggestions, it would certainly be interesting to do investigate culture driven development in second language acquisition, an area which has received little attention in the literature.
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Included in the “status update” post to Facebook that pointed to Patricia Kuhl’s talk: ” . . . I tend to include in one cloud the following dimensions: language uptake metonymy development of a social grammar conveyance of cultural attitudes attitude-behavior correspondence self-concept / cultural self-concept. IF “In the beginning was the Word”, then there’s the one note in religion I would interpret literally. We humans have language but invent and sustain it differently.” Hmmm. I may have to adjust my own prose for less snoot. ๐
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