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The central problem of first language acquisition
The central problem is to characterize how children can master their native languages. The problem is one of the deficiency of the stimulus: people come to have a very rich, complex and varied...
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Ochs and Shieffelin on motherese…fatherese…parentese?
All parents talk to their children in ‘motherse,’ ‘fatherese,’ ‘parentese’ or whatever you’d like to call it. You know, that high pitched, slowed down, emphasized speech style that parents universally...
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Speech perception in first and second language learning
“It is easy to understand how an innate ability to perceive speech sounds according to phonetic categories would ease the process of language learning, and the eventual identification of meaningful...
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Jeff Siegel on Second Dialect Acquisition
“I was born in the USA (Chicago) but have lived in Australia for more than twenty years. I’m an Ausstralian citizen, my wife and kids are Australian, I barrack for Australia in the Olympics (even over...
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