CHAPTER 3 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
SOCIALIZATION
bambi schieffelin's work among the kaluli people of papua new guinea reveals that - -mothers in
different cultures may think very differently about infants as language learners and social actors
exactly how do kaluli mothers involve in conversations? - they involve the older brother and the mother
speaks for the infant
what are two practices that middle-class caregivers in the U.S. do when involving children in
conversation - self-lowering and child-raising
can you explain what Noam Chomsky's theory of "universal grammar" (UG) is? - -UG provides an
overarching template for the range of possible human languages. The child needs to hear a few
examples of any particular grammatical feature in order to be able to set the appropriate parameter or
switch, correctly in UG.
where did elinor ochs conduct long term fieldwork? - western samoa
according to ochs, why do children there (see #5) acquire use of the ergative marker (in grammar) later
than children who speak other ergative languages? - -young samoan children, who spent most of their
first few years in the company of close, usually female, family members, heard relatively few ergative
markers and therefore learned to use such markers themselves later than children learning other
ergative languages.
there is a discussion of children in the village of Gapun, Papua New Guinea. What are some of the
reasons that this younger generation is largely speaking Tok Pisin? - -gapun parents assumed that their
children would find Tok Pisin easier and preferable to speak as their SAVE(means knowledge) developed,
so whenever parents really wanted their children to pay attention, they would switch into Tok Pisin.
-parents attributed the younger generation's shift in the village away from Taiap toward Tok Pisin caused
not by parent's own actions but by their childrens preference
