Why Rules Don't Matter in Language Learning
Learn Languages with Steve Kaufmann
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The Importance of Play in Language Production
In childhood, play is an opportunity for the child to make mistakes and experiment with different things. Spitzer: We don't need specific instruction in language; we just need to give the brain enough input so that it can evolve its own rules. Schpitzer goes into a lot of detail about the hippocampus on the cortex,. which is kind of beyond my knowledge base beyond my pigret. But he says short term memory, even medium term memory events are stored in the hippocampus. Whereas in the cortex, there's a much slow process of gradually acquiring skills - longer term knowledge, skills and language...
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