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• speech addressed to language-learning infants and children:
• short sentences
• greater repetition/questioning
• higher/more varied intonation

Knowledge specifically about human language

Abilities that are useful for other kinds of input besides language input are used to learn language. There is no knowledge or ability that is unique to language learning.

• unconscious process inside child’s mind, used only for learning language.
• LAD contains some domain-specific knowledge about the structure of language (this is often called Universal Grammar (UG)).

will just give the child a good example of the correction, without straight-out correcting them. ex He runned! mom: yes, he ran fast!

all knowledge and reason come from experience

mind has some pre-existing structure it imposes to interpret experience

• a technique used to study infant perceptual abilities. Typically involves an infant's sucking rate as a measure of her attention to various stimuli.
• Used for: testing infants’ ability to discriminate speech sounds

a measure that describes the pint during the production of a speech sound at which vocal fold vibration (voicing) begins

refers to the failure to discriminate speech sounds any better than you can identify them

or the inability to discriminate sounds within a phonemic category

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how is it part of prototype theory: