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| Came up with Universal grammar-a set of principles common to all language, its an innate basis to learn structure of language from exposure |
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| Universal grammar on an abstract level-allows us to learn language just by hearing it |
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| On a psychological level, language is independent from other skills and general knowledge |
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| Word learning does NOT have a critical period, however, syntax, phonological processing, and morphology do (starts around age 7) |
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| Added to Critical period idea (Neural plasticity) |
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| Basically the idea that if you know one language, when you hear another the grammatical rules you already know will help you piece together what you're hearing |
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