UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE-Open Cour

2015.4 Understanding The Bottleneck Hypothesis-Live Discussion notes.

2015.4.20-5.11 UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE-Open Course from University of Southampton 

Key concepts:

1. Mental/Universal/Second language Grammar are 3 types of grammar works in language acquisition.

2. All the types of meaning should work together.

3. Generally grammatical morphemes are the bottleneck of most second language, however different languages may have different types of bottleneck when learning.

4. Bottleneck exists in usage,processing, as well as the acquisition of language.

5. Different languages work in the same parallel, the grammars influence each other.

6. The mental lexicons and grammatical morphemes may go through declarative memories and procedural memories to eventual automatized usage of them.