First language acquisition

[@dodyhan3329]

Thank you so much for your constructive videos. I learn a lot from you (as a linguistics student). It's concise, to the point and engaging. I hope you'll do more videos. All the best.

[@simovera2504]

you are an amazing person

[@thewitchsfamiliar]

Danke Herr Martin. You are really helping me revise for my linguistics exam; I'm an audio and visual learner so these videos are a really good source of study material. Please continue!!

[@andy7143]

Thank you for the enlightening video. I would like to know what the source of the study about “ How creative are young children” is. Thank you❤

[@xinyuzhao135]

I also bought the 2nd edition of Construction Grammar. Looking forward more great videos coming from you! ❤

[@futurez12]

So many people need to listen to the first minute of this video. Sick of hearing people tell learners how hard their native language is to learn. This is a really good presentation BTW. I have to say though, not many 15 year-olds will have spent five years straight immersed in mathematics, probably barely even 5 months TBH (assumming 5-10 hours a week at most) and even that's not continuous immersion, so I don't think that comparison is a fair one.

[@yusasenel]

Hello. I am an ELT university student in a university in Turkey. I love your content! I wish all the teachers were like you. Because you explain concepts in such a simple way and I can tell that in your teaching philosophy, you care about morality and ethics as well. Thank you so much. I wish I was your student in University of Nachaeutel.

[@yahiaham6774]

Thanks Mr Martin for the lesson it was helpful i just wanna ask you if you can post it PDF !! thanks again !! :)

[@bingling7164]

2020, I'm a student, and husg wanna say BIG THANKS TO YOU

[@russelgilbert9040]

Did I hear you say that Steven Pinker's book 'is all wrong'?

[@DrSeanSSEES]

Nice lectures - I dipped in out of pure curiosity after talking to my daughter about doing Chaucer at school being bilingual.

[@samiraelfilaly5674]

Loads of thanks

[@hsstudykaola2459]

I'm a homeschooler studying for my A level Cambridge International English Language exam. Because this is the first time Linguistics (in such a sense) is introduced into the Cambridge English syllabus, I find it very hard to study for it and find materials online to help me prepare for my exam. I am so relieved to have found this channel!! Your videos are so well explained. They help me a lot!! Kind regards, your fan out of South Africa.

[@MartinHilpert]

Thanks for your feedback, good luck with your exams!

[@foreverlovehijau4428]

Hello sir.. May i have your opinion about" functiona: theory and language acquisition " is there any topics under functiona: theory and language acquisition? Can you give some topics about this?

[@j5679]

Only about a minute in but I think what you said is false. There absolutely are measurable and reproducible differences in L1 acquisition speed. Some languages are easier to acquire for children than others. There's a famous study on Danish children which are said to acquire vocabulary measurably slower.

[@MartinHilpert]

If you have the reference, I'll be happy to look into that.

[@j5679]

​@@MartinHilpert Wow, I didn't expect a reply! I feel honored. The study I was referring to was this one: Early vocabulary development in Danish and other languages: A CDI-based comparison (pub. 2008) There's also one on the differences of L1 grammar acquisition rate (also with respect to Danish): Is Danish difficult to acquire? Evidence from Nordic past-tense studies (pub. 2011) Excited to hear your thoughts!

[@misskate572]

consistent and clear! just great!

[@MartinHilpert]

Thanks for watching!

[@anthenyiscool2758]

lol "The goal here.. uh, hey, let's make psychology in such a way that we're just talking about stuff we can actually observe--actually measure." I loved that.

[@jennach2049]

i love u

[@miguelangel921]

Thank you.

[@cheloox7]

What would you recommend for someone passionate with learning languages to faster integrate the target language's grammar patterns? how would a field linguist learn a language he is interested in if it's already documented?we lost Michel Thomas and his skill to deconstruct and repiece together the language into his students's mind into a subconscious way.Aren't any ways to do this from your research and experience that are different from the traditional way of teaching grammar, the syntax of the language?I'm very happy just with anecdotal evidence,methods don't necessarily need peer reviewed research etc. thank you so much!

[@MartinHilpert]

There is no one-size-fits-all strategy, but what seems to work best for me is (1) constant interaction in the target language and (2) lots of reading.

[@cheloox7]

Still...field linguists are known to be among the fastest language learners because they have all the tools at their disposal on how to learn and map a language's structure....why are they so closely guarded from the "normal civilians"?

[@danielbigelow5254]

+cheloox7 because we are taught general linguistic structures and rules which occur in languages in general (and why), thus when we learn a new language, we master its grammar quickly as we do not need to learn what a single rule expresses, we only learn how the rule is used...plus we can compare similar rules across languages. (I AM VERY SIMPLIFYING, moreover there are linguists who speak only their native language)...for instance we learn what the ergative case is and how/why it is applied [in general, examples on concrete language], then when we learn a new ("second") language which has the ergative case, so we already know what it is and master it quickly

[@xinyuzhao135]

hahahahahahahah “dead as a dodo” This is class!!! Prof Martin you really should be one of those open mic shows. If I get to choose my postgraduate program again I would 100% go for the one having you. Thanks for all the great stuff you pop up here.

[@kellymcbright5456]

"behaviorism is dead". Yeah, and thats why psychologists all over the world hang after it and get off it. They're undead...

[@Ina-qb9dg]

Hello Mr. Hilpert, may I know the books or references you were using for this topic? Thank you.

[@محمدإبراهيمخليلالزيتونسيناءجبر]

Without any training like Piaget , Nature Can Talk like Scoobido around me ......

[@Budapestpatiypami]

Best video I've seen so far about the topic. Thanks

[@khanjeemani6777]

it's right and good for the students of linguistics and improve his learning skill through videos and if the student can't learn from his teachers they can easily understand such topics

[@salemfakouaa6055]

Thanks so much, very helpful.

[@youn5512]

Thank you for these invaluable videos ( they are all great

[@lamisyesso2785]

Thanks Mr Martin

[@brianmoreno2020]

Thank you for your classes! I love you

[@samad.chouihat4222]

sir you said that the book Language Instinct is all wrong .. could someone explain to me in what sense it is ALL wrong ?????

[@MartinHilpert]

What is at issue is the assumption of an innate language-specific mental faculty. Pinker argues there has to be one. Tomasello, Lieven, Ambridge, Goldberg, and others argue that language acquisition is driven by domain-general cognitive processes, and they support that argument with a substantial body of empirical work that is based on child language data.

[@BLItzzLIght]

This was Amazing! I just saw that you have worked with my linguistics prof Dr. Diessel. The world is so small.

[@MartinHilpert]

Say hi to Holger when you have a chance!

[@El_Rebelde_]

I'm not well versed enough in linguistics to really take a stance as to whether or not language is innate or not but from what I understand you don't think it is innate, I'm not gonna ask you to explain in detail in a KZbin comment why that is but can you give me some books or something like that to maybe give me a better understanding of your position.

[@MartinHilpert]

+Ivan Baez Michael Tomasello. 2003. Constructing a language. Harvard University Press.