Slobin Thinking for Speaking

Sapir-Worf in nieuw jasje.
"becoming a competent speaker of a language requires learning certain language-specific modes of thinking, which he dubbed "thinking for speaking". "

which claims that the language we learn shapes the way we perceive reality and think about it. This view is often contrasted with the "language acquisition device" view of Noam Chomsky and others, who think of language acquisition as a process largely independent of learning and cognitive development.


Children use canonical sentence schemas

The most significant data gathered from the results was that Turkish children perform extremely accurate on all the grammatical sentences, even from the youngest age. Overall, the Turkish subjects perform better than children learning other languages. "The English and Italian children in the younger ages perform at an intermediate level and the Serbo-Croatian children had the greatest difficulty