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[sebastienne]

Language Acquisition

This paper was evil. All of my good topics either didn't appear, or appeared in forms like "recent studies have shown the opposite of everything you've studied - discuss" that I really couldn't say anything about.

1. Evaluate the evidence that infants are able to segment words from continuous speech before their first birthday. How might this contribute to later lexical developmet?
Half-decent. 61

4. What advantages might cognitive immaturity have for acquiring a complex linguistic system?
Made this shit up. ugh. 55

5. To what extent are linguistic representations innate?
Made this shit up. ugh. 55

In all - 57. But I'm so close to finishing that I just can't bring myself to care.

Here, have this - so much better than anything else in the world ever.

Glen or Glenda?

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[janetmweiss.livejournal.com]

Ah yes...they played that on the movie network late one night here. Best night of my LIFE.

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

Language aquisition? Ooh. Doing that myself for Paper One these last two weeksof term. I don't pretend to understand it.

Do you have any books you could lend me? At the moment I'm just working with Pinker's 'The Language Instinct'. I'd be ever so grateful...

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

books - notsomuch. psychology is all about the big hefty journals, and even when it is about books, i'm too stingy to ever go out and /buy/ any of them when the library has perfectly good copies.

on the other hand, if you tell me exactly which areas you're looking at, i'd be happy to throw a couple of links to journal articles your way..

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

Same! Except now that all the 2nd year English students are doing to same paper it's become very hard to find the books in the libraries. Owning books is one of the areas where rich students are so much better off *grumble*

Something on Asperger's syndrome or autism and language would be EXTREMELY useful, as one of the fictional texts I'm looking at is The Curious Incident with the Dog in the Night-time. Where does one find these articles?

Now your exams are over will you be larping with us in the sun? :)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

this (http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/medsci/undergrad/exppsy/tutors/kplunkett/) is the weblearn page of the chap who teaches language acquisition - if you're able to log onto it, you could have a root through his stuff, although I have to say, I don't specifically recall doing anything about autistic-spectrum disorders.

here (http://aut.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/1/23) and here (http://aut.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/57) are the first two interesting results found when doing a search for the word "language" in the journal called "Autism".. all the journals in Oxford can be found on TDnet.

A really good book about Autism is the one by Uta Frith, although I don't know how much of it refers to language.

[terminalbeach.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed not to see Alan charging onto the beach wearing a dress and firing a machine gun. I read about this film when I was a teenager, and I have seen many clips over the years. Tonight I saw it all. Tim Burton's Ed Wood (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/?fr=c2M9MXxsbT01MDB8ZnQ9MXxrdz0xfGZiPXV8dHQ9MXxteD0yMHxodG1sPTF8c2l0ZT11a3xxPWVkIHdvb2R8bm09MXxjbz0xfHBuPTA_;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1Ed Wood) is worth a go if you haven't seen it already.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

ooh yes! i'd seen that years ago in my johnny-depp-love phase (jenny_depp comes from that period) and it was ever since then that i'd been meaning to see Glen or Glenda.