Acquiring the human language [videorecording]
Subtitle: "playing the language game"
By: produced, written and directed by Gene Searchinger ; Equinox Films.
Contributors: Miller, George A. 1920-; Searchinger, Gene.; Equinox Film, Inc.; Ways of Knowing, Inc.
Series: Human language series ; 2
Publisher: Ways of Knowing Inc.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Hohokus, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Children -- Language.; Language acquisition.; Language and languages.
Notes: FOR CLASSROOM USE ONLY.  Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Discusses how children learn to talk, how they acquire language without seeming to learn it. Experts comment on Noam Chomsky's ideas, that children have an innate knowledge of basic language structure, that the human brain is highly differentiated, and that one subsystem is for learning language. Others debate whether language is both innate and learned. Also covered are children's learning biases and language errors.

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