Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

How do babies get so good at language so quickly? Because they already know a lot from the beginning about how language works. In this week's episode of The Ling Space, we talk about Universal Grammar and evidence that babies are little language acquisition geniuses.

This week's tag language: Japanese!

This is Topic #1 - our very first video!

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If you're looking for the paper on the phonological models, that's Lisa Pearl's 2011 paper, "When unbiased probabilistic learning is not enough: Acquiring a parametric system of metrical phonology."  http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/pap...

Subtitles:
Spanish subtitles by Federico Falletti

Looking forward to next week!

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