[xmca] Deb Roy

["James P. Lantolf" <jpl7@psu.edu>]

All I saw in the video was a child learning how to pronounce the word 
"Water". I saw no evidence of the child mastering the concept "water".  
Chomsky argued many years ago in his Managua Lectures that children and 
adults must understand the same thing when they use the same word or 
else they would not be able to communicate. This of course is a 
simplistic notion of communication and understanding that Vygotsky did 
not accept. I certainly hope that Roy will investigate concept 
development and not just assume, as does Chomsky, that phonology is all 
that the child needs to acquire. He has a great data source to deal with 
the far more interesting and important problem.

Jim

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James P. Lantolf, Greer Professor in Language Acquisition
&  Applied Linguistics http://aplng.la.psu.edu/people/faculty.shtml#jpl
Director of the Center for Language Acquisition http://language.la.psu.edu/
Co-Director CALPER (Center for Advanced Language Proficiency, Education,
Research) http://calper.la.psu.edu/
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