5.4. conclusion of language

5.4. conclusion of language

study of language

• focus on acquisition & development

• contributed to psychology, linguistics & neuroscience

general studies on the structure of languages ​​allowed

• advance in the understanding of the nature of language

• serves → explanation of language as a mental ability & processing model inspired by Chomsky's generative grammar

Piaget's constructivist perspective assumed

• need for linguistic competence to develop language

• emphasizing the importance of the child's direct experience with the communicative context

• emphasizing childs active role in his learning

Cognitive investigations focused their attention on

• information processing through the use of the computer metaphor

• Explains languages: mental program or software with an exclusive & innate functioning.

neuroscience & language

• the child is born with an immature brain

• specialization processes that gradually lead to a cerebral complexity → supports adult linguistic processing.

psychological approach to the study of language must be

• be both cognitive & developmental

psychological approach to the study of language focus on

• Understanding how language develops → evolutionary development

• Understanding how language is acquired & produced

• Relationship with cognitive development (thinking)

Language acquisition has been approached with four theoretical approaches:

• Principles of behaviourist theory,

• Innateness of Chomsky's generative grammar,

• Evolutionary perspective of language subordinate to Piaget's theory

• Interactionist perspective through the theories of Vygotsky & Bruner.