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“The next time you see a baby, remember that there is a powerful statistical computer in front of you”

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Book:The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

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“(...) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.”

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Book:The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.”

Language Learning Language Acquisition

Book:The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

Source: The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

“Not all babies learn to play chess or hunt penguins or play the didgeridoo, but except in cases of pathology they all master their first language. Indeed, failure to master one’s first language is taken to reflect a pathological condition; failing to master algebra or the piccolo has no such implication.”

Language Acquisition

Book:Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

Source: Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

“As far as the language instinct is concerned, the correlation between genes and languages is a coincidence. People store genes in their gonads and pass them to their children through their genitals; they store grammars in their brains and pass them to their children through their mouths. Gonads and brains are attached to each other in bodies, so when bodies move, genes and grammars move together. That is the only reason that geneticists find any correlation between the two.”

Genetics Linguistics Language Acquisition

Book:The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.”

Language Learning Language Acquisition

Book:The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

Source: The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

“The language of academic discourse, which is crucial to academic progress beyond grade 3 is learned by all children through literacy: there are no native speakers of academic language!”

Humor Education Language Acquisition Ela

Author:L. W. Fillmore

“The study of universal grammar is a joint venture between globetrotting theoreticians who worry about impossible grammars and laboratory experimentalists who put young children through these impossible grammars. Perhaps, as in physics, one of these days there will be a grand unified theory of universal grammar. Linguistics today is where physics was in the age of Galileo and Kepler. The collection of principles may one day be replaced by one powerful principle - perhaps just the principle of recursion. that underlies them all. Universal grammar is still waiting for its Newton and Einstein. Whatever it turns out to be, its job its to keep children on the right track to their language.”

Language Acquisition Universal Grammar

Book:The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World

Source: The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World

“The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.”

Language Learning Languages And Culture Language Acquisition

Book:An introduction to the study of language

Source: An introduction to the study of language

“When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend. If you listen to everybody, you will be nobody. Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished. People hate what they know but fear what they don't. A curious mind is never bored. Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity. People believe in everything except the reality.”

Korean Foreign Language Language Learning Language Acquisition Korean Writers

Author:Min Kim

“The widely documented failure of late starters to achieve native-like proficiency, even when motivation, cognitive abilities, and opportunities are optimal and plentiful, all agree, is one of the most salient facts about SLA. It is a weighty empirical problem, in Laudan's sense, crying out for a solution.”

Language Acquisition

Book:Problems in Second Language Acquisition

Source: Problems in Second Language Acquisition