native language acquisition in children (first language acquisition)

Language development and acquisition in children

Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language.  The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...

اکتساب زبان مادری در کودک (First Language Acquisition)

در روند اکتساب (acquisition) زبان مادری پیرامون بسیاری از زبانهای زنده دنیا تحقیقات وسیعی صورت گرفته است و در اغلب موارد نتایج بسیار مشابهی بدست آمده است که این امر به فرضیه جهانی بودن زبان (Language Universals) قوت بیشتری می بخشد. این تحقیقات در مورد زبانهای انگلیسی، فرانسه، روسی، آلمانی، استانبولی، ایتالیایی، عربی، چینی، ترکی، ژاپنی، عبری، لهستانی و برخی از زبانهای آفریقایی به صورت مکتوب و بس...

First Language Acquisition

Phonetics of first language acquisition

In the first two years of life, most children develop the phonetic scaffolding that is needed to acquire a first language. They learn to perceptually parse the sound patterns of the words and longer utterances that are being said in their hearing, and they learn to respond to phatic utterances that are said to them, practicing a perception-production feedback loop until their vocalizations have...

First-language acquisition after childhood differs from second-language acquisition: the case of American Sign Language.

This study determined whether the long-range outcome of first-language acquisition, when the learning begins after early childhood, is similar to that of second-language acquisition. Subjects were 36 deaf adults who had contrasting histories of spoken and sign language acquisition. Twenty-seven subjects were born deaf and began to acquire American Sign Language (ASL) as a first language at ages...

Extracting the Native Language Signal for Second Language Acquisition

We develop a method for effective extraction of linguistic patterns that are differentially expressed based on the native language of the author. This method uses multiple corpora to allow for the removal of data set specific patterns, and addresses both feature relevancy and redundancy. We evaluate different relevancy ranking metrics and show that common measures of relevancy can be inappropri...