ANTH 493: Linguistic Anthropology

Here is a ppt on language acquisition:

http://www.englishlanguageteacher.org/child%20language/Child%20Language%20Acquisition%20grammar%20feedback2.ppt

Here is a ppt on poverty of stimulus:

http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/~zjakab/BSCS_Topics_in_Cognitive_Development/Lang_acq08.ppt

And one more on language acquisition:

plaza.ufl.edu/lcsonka/notes/Presentation17a.ppt

And another on language acquisition:

http://www.osmania.ac.in/sanskritacademy/Research/data/E-LIB/Reserach%20papers/NLP_Research/Child%20_l_acquin.ppt

Toddlers Outsmart Chimps in Some Tasks, Not All

Primate studies at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutinary Anthropology indicate that our ability to socialize is a key component of our ability to use language. Researchers found that children and chimps and orangutans performed at the same level on a number of tasks. When the task required directing the activity of another, however, children performed at a much higher level. Humans are characterized as ‘ultra-social’.