Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

This hasn’t aged well. I would argue with the claim that Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics. He is the originator of one linguistic theory, which has been very influential, arguably too influential. Recent computer models based on generalised neural networks have achieved a remarkable success in language production and translation. That a generalised model can do this is strong evidence against the idea of a detailed language model in the human brain. It is evidence that grammar is a feature of language, not the brain. Given how bad academic language tuition is, witness school and university teaching, I struggle to accept much of modern linguistic theory when it comes to second language acquisition.

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Astute content, indeed. A book I read on similar topics was an eye-opener. "Galaxies United" by Olivia Whitestone

I love the way you teach all these difficult subjects

"What a cute baby. Where's the kitty, baby?"

10/10 delivery. No notes.

I love the way he gleans what's going on inside our heads and comes up with such powerful concepts.

I can testify that u are born with language dose any one else remember being born

Example universal grammar in daily life ?

Born to fail is my experience.

I just watched this for a Masters in Teaching course I'm taking. Had to jump on and say THANK YOU! WOW!! I found this content to be so interesting and very helpful. It's all explained very concisely and expertly. I'm definitely subscribing. I sure hope it's still active...

Fantastic! Thanks for this video - informative anda nice intro to Universal Grammar.

Thank you guys. This is a really interesting topic

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Does the sign behind him say "I love phonerics"? I'm confused...!?

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I agree with you,.I hope this video can add more knowledge.tq

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New information, correct. Thanks a lot

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"Kids never make mistakes like that" 😂
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So glad to see that they are these helpful videos about particular topics of linguistics. Not only helpful also super entertaining. I never get bored. Great job! 👍

I came from Tom Scott and this video might be informativ but I like Tom's videos better. This one doen't get two sentences without a cut while Tom manages to hide the two or three cuts of the entire video very efficiently. Sorry, I'm not becoming a subscriber

Thank you. helped me a lot :)

Me: sitting in psych class and casually looks at the shirt he’s wearing
My thoughts: “this dude has played Persona 4!”

All of this leads to proof of the existence of God

"depending on your language, you might not be able to tell the difference between 'talk' and '_____' " I guess my native language isn't English then because you sounded as if you said the same thing twice. At first I though you said "talk" and "torque" but then those sound the same. Your example is to show that to us english speakers distinctive sounds sound the same to non native speakers. I might just be the accent but I can't tell the difference.

well done, very informative. Thank you

he looks like a toddler explaining why he stole nutella and painted all over his younger brother.

I sit through the whole of this and think, So what?

I once stumbled over articles that, while you just said that word acquisition seems to happen at the same time, suggested that grammar perfection actually happens at different ages, earlier for simpler ones like English and late for complex ones like German, Russian or Arabic, what do you know about that?

I have always wondered, how come some children can speak two languages between the ages of three and five without having to worry about learning grammar first. They are not worried about what to say and how to say it. Thank You this brief video shed some light I watched it three times.

thank you for this clear explanation, it helps lot.

Super informative..... Plz keep making videos like this.....u make me fall in love with linguistics

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Thanks for this very good explanation! Could you please name that experiment where 15 kids were studied and it turned out they create the same sounds?

Question: You say babies learn languages way faster than anything else, so it must be preprogrammed in them. I look at my toddler and I can see that if it was fun and useful to do so, she would learn to tie her shoe in a matter of a few days if what we did all day is practise tying shoes. Babies learn language quickly because we speak all day long. We don't practise other areas of learning all day long. Thoughts?

How amazing! I loved knowing this!

Hey there, I know this is an older video and you may not reply, but I was wondering if you could provide me with a source for the study you mentioned comparing the babbling of babies who came from different language backgrounds. Thanks :)