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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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!
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"?
+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
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 RU-vid 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.
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.
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 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!
