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	Language acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Language acquisition is the process by which language develops in humans.
		First language acquisition concerns the development of language in children, while second language acquisition focuses on language development in adults as well.
		The language became "creolized," and is known as Hawaii Creole English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_acquisition (1676 words)

	Language_acquisition
		One of the most important advances in the study of language acquisition was the creation of the CHILDES database.
		One idea central to the Chomskian view is the idea of Universal Grammar, which posits that all languages have the same basic underlying structure, and that specific languages have rules that transform these underlying structures into the specific patterns found in given languages.
		Another Chomsky argument is that without a propensity for language, human infants would be unable to learn such complete speech patterns in a natural human environment where complete sentences are the exception.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/language_acquisition.html (1688 words)

	Proto-World and the Language Organ
		One argument for the language organ, for instance, is the poverty of stimulus argument-- that the language available to children is too little in quantity and too suspect in quality to serve to construct a grammar.
		But many immigrants don’t really have to learn the national language-- the required level of national language competence in their work is often minimal, and they may live in an enclave (a family or a neighborhood) where it is not needed at all.
		Humans may well be adapted to language; the case is strongest, perhaps, for the alteration of the vocal tract: the choking hazard would surely be maladaptive if not outweighed by the greater good of producing a wide range of possible speech sounds.
	www.zompist.com /langorg.htm (5649 words)

	All About Languages
		The use of language is one of the most conspicuous and diagnostic traits that distinguish H. sapiens from other animals.
		In the 19th century, philosophers and linguists proposed a number of hypotheses to explain the origin of language, which are noteworthy for their names even if none of them have vanquished their competitors in the battles for scientific credibility.
		According to this, human language represents the use of oral gestures that began in imitation of hand gestures that were already in use for communication.
	creativelanguages.com /all-about-Languages.html (2539 words)

	Billy's blog: Linguablogging Archives
		Numbers of students taking a language as part of their degree are falling but a lot of them want to learn a language outside their degree programmes.
		It’s mentioned by Chomsky (Knowledge of Language 1986) and the question is whether it’s grammatical if the referent of his is the same as the referent of husband and the referent of wife is the same as the referent of her
		I guess what language teachers really need right now is a story about how boring their lessons are.
	blogs.pumpernickle.net /billy/linguablogging (5449 words)

	Dictionary - Sign Language Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A virtual guide to British Sign Language for young deaf children, their families, teachers and carers....
		A cognitive model of Chantek, a signing orangutan, for an installation at Zoo Atlanta.
		Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process.
	www.dictionary-resource.com /signlanguagedictionary (731 words)

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