Nature and Nurture
Guillermo de Vicente Garrote
Language acquisition and disruptions
Nature and Nurture: what the genes and the family determine
Nature and nurture are two ways of determining the factors that are involved into the human nature. My goal in this essay is determining what are the main factors involved in the acquisition of the language in a human.
By the extension of both terms, I will extend these two terms not only in the way of acquisition but also in the way of learning a language.
Why? Because language is basically communication and not only children learn how to speak a language, adults can also learn.
Nature
Nature is the fact in which genetics and biological factors are involved. The meaning of this term affirms that is the individual the responsible of its own growing and in its extremist significance, society and enviroment does not anything to do with human learning.
In the nature position, there is a branch which affirms that the brain is divided into modules and one of this has an prenatal predisposition for acquiring language.
For instance: FOX P2 is a gene that is involved into the acquisition of language in children. The mutation of this gene may cause disruptions in the speech of the individual, including the unability of pronouncing any intelligible word.
The most visible fact that makes nativism a theory is babies ' babbling. Children receive stimuli since the moment they are born and the way they react to that words is unique. For example, babies pay attention and react the stimulus sucking while their mothers are talking their L1 but they do not so if they are listening to other language, even if it is their mother voice.
This theory is mainly supported by famous investigators such as Avram Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor or Ludovica Serratrice.
Nurture
Nurture is the fact that involves the family and the enviroment into the acquisition of a language. This theory suggests that the language is acquired by social relationships. Its most extreme
Language acquisition and disruptions
Nature and Nurture: what the genes and the family determine
Nature and nurture are two ways of determining the factors that are involved into the human nature. My goal in this essay is determining what are the main factors involved in the acquisition of the language in a human.
By the extension of both terms, I will extend these two terms not only in the way of acquisition but also in the way of learning a language.
Why? Because language is basically communication and not only children learn how to speak a language, adults can also learn.
Nature
Nature is the fact in which genetics and biological factors are involved. The meaning of this term affirms that is the individual the responsible of its own growing and in its extremist significance, society and enviroment does not anything to do with human learning.
In the nature position, there is a branch which affirms that the brain is divided into modules and one of this has an prenatal predisposition for acquiring language.
For instance: FOX P2 is a gene that is involved into the acquisition of language in children. The mutation of this gene may cause disruptions in the speech of the individual, including the unability of pronouncing any intelligible word.
The most visible fact that makes nativism a theory is babies ' babbling. Children receive stimuli since the moment they are born and the way they react to that words is unique. For example, babies pay attention and react the stimulus sucking while their mothers are talking their L1 but they do not so if they are listening to other language, even if it is their mother voice.
This theory is mainly supported by famous investigators such as Avram Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor or Ludovica Serratrice.
Nurture
Nurture is the fact that involves the family and the enviroment into the acquisition of a language. This theory suggests that the language is acquired by social relationships. Its most extreme
Bibliography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Linguistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture#Nature_and_nurture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition#Representation_of_language_acquisition_in_the_brain