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More than a few children can rely on corrective feedback

I dispute the claim

Moreover, few, if any, children can rely on corrective feedback from adults when they make a grammatical error, due to the fact that adults generally provide feedback regardless of whether a child's utterance was grammatical or not, and children have no way of discerning if a response was intended to be a correction.

Linguists, like the rest of us, suffer from confirmation bias, and Chomskyans are no exception. In reality, it's easy for children to distinguish adult correction from other responses. A toddler says, "I hurt my knee." Adult says, "Aww ... let me look at it ... let me clean it up ... there, there, it's not so bad." A child says, "I breaked my doll." Adult says, "I broke my doll." There is a slight pause before and after "broke" and the word is slightly louder. A child quickly learns that the first response is loving comfort and the second response is a correction. It is preposterous to suggest that "few, if any" children are given reliable corrective feedback, or that children can't tell the difference between corrective feedback and other responses. —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:22, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Independent of my opinion of generativism/minimalism/functionalism/what-have-you, I second that I feel this shouldn't be presented as uncontroversial, though I'm not going to cede agreement to the idea that children 'can rely on corrective feedback' (whatever this actually means) based on the above argument. You (or I, or anyone else) would need to cite sources that counter the argument, discuss the matter in-depth, and so on. If you have said sources, feel free to write something up, ask for feedback, etc. If you have them but don't have the time to write, feel free to give me the references and I'll see if I can write something up. LingNerd007 (talk) 02:26, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

merge 'acquisition' and 'development'?

could we do that?Mahengrui1 (talk) 15:49, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of Images and Figures

In order to aid the average reader in understanding concepts in language acquisition, I believe further images and figures would be useful additions. For example, a table summarizing Hockett's design features and providing examples of how each feature is unique (or not) to human language would strengthen the section "As a typically human phenomenon" which already mentions some of Hockett's design features. Jenricano (talk) 15:04, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Complex vowels

The current article contains the sentence "One such challenge is to explain how children acquire complex vowels in Otomanguean and other language" where "Otomanguean" redirects to Oto-Manguean languages. However, if I search for "complex vowels" in that article, I don't find anything. It would be good to either add a section on "complex vowels" to that article to address the reference, or else update the reference in the current article to be more clear. Thisisnotatest (talk) 00:33, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]