How Language is Shaped

 

NOAM CHOMSKY AND HIS THEORY Noam Chomsky, is an American Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive scientist, and Social Activist.  He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy.  Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist,referring to himself as a libertarian socialist. Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

Innatismo	Language Organ /language growth	Universal Grammar
Language is inmate Human beings are GENETICALLY PREPROGRAMMED for to develop language. We have a predisposition to speak. We have been genetically programmed with mental structures. These mental structures are in a organ called language organ.	Language organ is developed in our brain. It doesn`t have a specific place. It is intangible. It is developed for 2 factors that stimulated it: Environment + experiences linguistics • If a child listens to Spanish he will be able to speak Spanish. • If a child listens to Spanish and English at the same time. He will be able to speak too language.	Is an universal language that is innate of human beings It wants to say That nouns, adjective, adverb are used in all language but their differences are where they are situated in the grammar structures. Beautiful house Not house beautiful like in Spanish. Is inherited genetic and is useful us because we can speak and learn human language. Alien´s Language: If their language violates the principles of our universal grammar We couldn´t be able to understand their language because it could have different codes

Here, there are three theories Chomsky, Skinner and Piaget

They had differences theories about how humans beings develop their language.

Chomsky	Skinner	Piaget
He had differences with : ·      Language Organ	Skinner’s Behaviorist theory of language, learning, and mind. Skinner agreed that humans were genetically programmed to see and hear. He claimed that all our learning it could develop it with TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE.	The child passes through cognitive states, but he wasn´t really clear about what produced a new stage of cognitive development He claimed that all our cognitive stages could develop with our experiences.

WORKSHOPIndicate IF TRUTH OR FALSE, provide the correct info.

Chomsky claimed that:

1. We have a predisposition to speak.________
2. We have not been genetically programmed with mental structures.________
3. Nouns, adjective and adverb are not used in our universal grammar.______
4. We are able to learn an Alien´s language___
5. Skinner, Chomsky and Piaget agreed on their theories.______
6. Skinner believes that a language organ can develop regarding the environment ________

¡ Match the following pictures to the corresponding theory, and therefore author. 

¡ PIAGET____

¡ CHOMSKY____

¡ SKINNER____

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