How can we get at what kids know about language? What challenges do linguists face in working with children? This week, we take a look at child language experimentation: why it differs from adult testing, descriptions of a couple of types of experiments, and how we need to find the right test to get at exactly what's happening with kids.
If you want to watch our previous video about how to test babies, that's this one: • How to Test Language in Babies
This is Topic #39!
This week's tag language: Arapaho!
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Most of the information in the information in this episode was taken from Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton's book, Investigations in Universal Grammar. It's a really good and useful read, and I look back at it fairly often.
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