Patient Information about Epilepsy & Seizures. Epilepsy, or seizure disorder, is a chronic neurological condition caused by abnormal brain cell activity. Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizuresâhaving one seizure does not necessarily mean that a person has epilepsy.
(1971) â¢ Discriminability was measured by an increase in sucking rate toa second speech sound after habituation to the first sound. â¢ Recovery from habituation was greater when the two stimuli were from different adult phonemiccategories than when they were from the same category. Eimas et al.1971) reported that infants, like adults, demonstrate categorical ppp p perception for speech sounds. To explain this they proposed that infants are equipped with innate, speech-specific, phoneticfeature detectors tuned to the range of phonetic contrasts used in the worldâs languages.
Ad. The language acquisition device theory was first introduced in the 1950s. Noam Chomsky tied it into the nativist theory of language, which proposed that humans have an inborn capacity or instinct to aid in acquiring their mother tongues.he language acquisition device (LAD) is the name given to a theoretical section of the brain posited to house the innate ability to acquire and recognize a first language.