Language Development TED—Linguistic Determinism Ch. 7B—p TED—Linguistic Determinism TED—Linguistic Determinism “Learn a new language and get a new soul” “Language is the jewel in the crown of cognition” “To destroy a people, destroy their language”

Fun Facts 6800 languages exist in the world today (one dies out every two weeks) 250 languages are spoken by more than 1 million people. 83 languages are spoken by 80 percent of the world’s pop are spoken by.2 percent of world pop. 80% of 260 native languages in US/Canada are not being learned by children.

Babies and language Babbling Stage One word Stage Telegraphic speech Rapid language development

Building Block of Language Phoneme—smallest unit of sound ◦ English has 40 ◦ Languages range from ◦ Why we have accents Morpheme—smallest unit of meaning Grammer/Syntax /langqui3.htm /langqui3.htm

Language Case Studies/Research Language Development (11min) Language Development Oxana Malaya Project Nim

Nature v. Nurture…again. B.F. SkinnerNoam Chomsky Imitation/reinforcement/ operant conditioning Language Acquisition Device Universal Grammar

Bilingual Speakers 66% of world’s children are raised bilingual Only 6% of US residents are bilingual ◦ Additive vs. subtractive (US schools)

Cognitive Benefits Great understanding of 1 st language Appreciate phonological component of language Better at following instructions Increased test scores on creativity Better at understanding concepts and sorting through irrelevant information Connections between vocab and memory

Language and Comprehension Linguistic Determinism

A Special Pre-Primer

Why is so easy now? Tihs is bceause ew hvae ctraeed nuealr nteowrks ni our bairn to rcegocinze ecah wrod.