- Humans are the only living organisms capable of producing complex and varied sounds that can form language due to our brains.
- Different areas of our brains are responsible for different tasks, when we speak we're using several different parts of our brain in conjunction.
- Evidence suggests that humans are born with the inate ability to produce language, however the nature vs nurture debate is still a hot topic among language theorist.
- We have a gene that enables us to use langage, in one very rare case a family without the gene did no posess the motor skills to speak properly.
- Different case studies suggest that most of the key skills regarding language are aquired during the first few years of a childs development, after a certain amount of time language becomes much harder to learn.
Thank you Alex for your comments. You have picked up on the Nature/Nurture debate as well as recognising the critical periods in language development. I hope you were able to apply what we have learned in class to the programme's content. We shall now move from understanding to application, as we develop our AO2 through these ideas.
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