First and Second Language Acquisition

Hi, Everyone,




I enjoyed going through FLA and SLA with you this morning. It's a subject I'm very fascinated with.



Here are some links to the videos you were shown, as well as the interesting New Yorker article on the Piraha people in Brazil and how their language "disproves" the UG position (please note my quotations on "disproves"!)




1) Chomsky lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJp1-Od67-U

2) How babies learn language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAuZ--Yeqo&feature=related

3) Piraha language (it's non recursive!): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto

Also, I encourage you to search www.youtube.com for interesting videos in English for your students. It's an easily accessible (and free!) site which can be valuable for language learning.

See you next Monday,

Lara

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