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NOAM CHOMSKY'S UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
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UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
NOAM CHOMSKY
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Review the theory of Universal Grammar Theory by Noam Chomsky
- Consider how this learning approach is used currently in a range of learning contexts.
ACTIVITY
REBUS PUZZLE
A riddle or puzzle made up of letters, pictures, and symbols whose names sound like the syllables and words of a phrase or sentence.
UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR THEORY
Noam Chomsky:
A New Paradigm in Modern Linguistics
NOAM CHOMSKY
NOAM CHOMSKY
- Known as "The father of Modern Linguistics".
- An eminent American theoretical linguist, cognitive scientist and philosopher, who radically changed the arena of linguistics by assuming language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity.
- Suggested that innate traits in the human brain give birth to both language and grammar.
KEY CONCEPTS:
• Some language ability is innate.
• A Universal Grammar exists for all languages.
• Children are equipped with a Language Acquisition Device.
LANGUAGE ACQUISTION DEVICE
THEORY
(LAD)
NOAM CHOMSKY'S THEORY
ON LANGUAGE ACQUISTIION
VIDEO
LANGUAGE IS AN INNATE FACULTY
Language as an innate faculty
- Human beings are pre-wired to learn language and in fact are born with the basic rules for language intact.
- Children do not know anything about grammar or syntax but still they can produce grammatical sentences in most of the time.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE
LANGUAGE ACQUISTION DEVICE
- It is a set of language learning tools, provided at birth.
- It was introduced in his 1957 book, Syntactic Structures
- It holds that humans that humans are born with a language acquisition device, which allows them to learn any language.
- It is used to explain how children acquire language so easily while learning little by little every single day during their formative years.
7 STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN HOW CHILDREN LEARN TO SPEAK
UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR THEORY
- It is the basis upon which all human languages build.
- It asserts that certain concepts of grammar are hard-wired to the brain and manifest without being taught.
- Chomsky points out that universal grammar is not grammar, it is a philosophy of how people learn grammar to structure a specific language.
UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
DIALOGUE : Parent and Child (3 years old)
Parent: What did you do today?
Child: Me drawed a cat. (applies –ed suffix rule but gets wrong)
Parent: You drew a cat?
Child: Yeah. (understands correction)
Parent: Who did you play with at breaktime?
Child: Me played with Sarah and Helen. (wrong pronoun – not learnt passively)
Parent: That sounds fun. Now what do you want for tea?
Child: Dunno. What you having?
Parent: Daddy and I are having fish.
Child: You having fishes? (incorrect use of plural noun but shows
child applying rules)
Parent: Yes. I’ll do you some fish fingers and if you’re a good girl
and eat them all you can have a sweetie. (applying plural noun rule)
Child: Me want two sweeties.
Parent: Alright then. Now go and watch Postman Pat while I start the tea.
Child: When Daddy coming home? (gets SVO order correct all the time)
Parent: He’ll be here soon.
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES:
https://biznewske.com/noam-chomsky-theory-of-language-acquisition-device/
REFERENCES
https://www.openculture.com/2019/02/a-brief-animated-introduction-to-noam-chomskys-linguistic-theory-narrated-by-the-x-files-gillian-anderson.html