Jean Aitchison Sözleri ve Alıntıları
Jean Aitchison sözleri ve alıntılarını, Jean Aitchison kitap alıntılarını, Jean Aitchison en etkileyici cümleleri ve paragragları 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.It is well known that children tend to omit or confuse the first syllable of a word, particularly if it is unstressed, as in RITTACK, RIDUCTOR, RIFECTION for ‘attack’, ‘conductor’, ‘infection’. But this is not only because the syllable is unstressed. It is also because the syllable occurs at the beginning of the word.
By innate, Chomsky simply means ‘genetically programmed’. He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a ‘blueprint’ is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyses the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths.
Children do not manufacture any new brain cells after birth. They are born with millions, perhaps billions. At first the cells are not all interconnected, and the brain is relatively light (about 300g). From birth to around 2 years, many more cells interconnect, and brain weight increases rapidly. By the age of 2, it weighs nearly 1000g.
On the one hand, human language may have gradually evolved from a more primitive animal means of communication in a continuous line of growth – a viewpoint sometimes known as a ‘continuity’ theory. On the other hand, human language may be something quite different from our basic animal heritage, and superimposed on it. This is a ‘discontinuity’ theory.
The control for different parts of the body in brain works upside down: control of the feet and legs is near the top of the head, and control of the face and mouth is further down.
We all know how difficult it is to hear the exact sounds of a foreign word. This is because we are so busy imposing on it what we expect to hear, in terms of our own language habits, that we fail to notice certain novel features.