1.1 Discussion Forum: Cognitive Functionalism in First Language Acquisition
Micahel tomasello constructing a language
https://learning.fresno.edu/pluginfile.php/2541622/mod_page/content/18/Chapter%20O%20N%20E%20Constructing%20a%20Languagedocx.pdf?time=1651694964470
Lectures:
Generative Grammar
The lecture describes how children generate grammar in different contexts. Choose one of the arguments below and postulate the grammar that might be generated from these experiences. Use details from linguistics in your answer.
Argument-Structure Constructions
• People acting on objects
• Objects changing state or location
• People giving people things
• People experiencing psychological states
• Objects or people being in a state
• Things being acted upon
Answer the following in about half a page.
Children Learning Words
Using the information from the lecture, describe the factors needed for learning words. Have you seen these factors in action with children you know?
Behaviorism
Noam Chomsky said that behaviorism was inadequate for explaining how children learn their first language. What is behaviorism and why is it an incomplete model for explaining L1 acquisition?
Half a page on the following:
https://oasis-database.org/?locale=en
Go to the website and search for studies related to:
• first language acquisition
• age of learner in language acquisition
• critical period
• something similar
In your discussion, explain why you chose the article, then describe how you might use (if you can) in your future classroom.
