Week 8.2 Language Acquisition: Nature vs Nurture

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公開日: 2020年11月26日

In our second video on language acquisition, we ask how children are able to acquire language as rapidly and systematically as they do. Are they born with a blank slate for their mind and just incredibly good general learners, or are they genetically pre-endowed with some mental knowledge or specialised learning mechanism that specifically allows them to acquire language? That's the nature versus nurture debate, and we'll have a look at a couple of phenomena that might shed some light on the issue...

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