Could Frankenstein learn to talk without Human interaction? Imagine a monster standing next to you but instead of it eating you it spoke to you. As everyone knows Dr. Frankenstein didn't get the body parts in the ultimate humane way. He practiced grave robbing, meaning that he stole corpses from a cemetery. The theory of language acquisition is that human beings learn to speak and read through other humans. Thanks to the understanding of language acquisition, there is a possibility that the monster could have an actual conversation with anyone. Taking into consideration language acquisition, language development theories, and human interaction, there is a possibility the monster could learn to speak perfectly. The theory states that if the …show more content…
In the books, the author describes the monster as emotional and said that it was able to move around, meaning that the brain is either starting at square one like a baby does or it is remembering how to do regular functions. Using Language Acquisition Theories, the monster could learn to speak. In order to understand how Frankenstein's monster could learn to speak, one must learn about Language Acquisition. Throughout the paragraph, one will learn about language acquisition and the important role it has on learning if the monster would be able to learn to speak. According to psycholinguists: Li, Aike, and Brechtje, language acquisition " is a subconscious process; language acquirers are usually not aware of the facts that they are learning a new language, but are aware only that they arse …show more content…
Frank Smith, contemporary psycholinguist, known for his contributions to linguistics and cognitive psychology. He did a research on how children attain to speak using phonemic in school. He realized that " Instead of looking at reading as a matter of making sense of the text, they look at how well children can put sounds in isolated words, and even to meaningless sequences of letters, to confirm that they use the alphabetic code. This is like tying children’s feet together to prove they must jump before walking. " (Smith 3). Smith demonstrated how easy it was for a teacher to easily teach children the sounds of words. He also revealed to disagree with this by comparing it to teaching a child to jump before walking. Smith proved that repetition of sound is the first part of acquiring a language. But, in order to better understand Phonemic, phonemes must come into place. Phonemes are the basic pairs that differentiate the sound. Most consonances are in a pair with letters that have the same tongue and lip placement. "P" and "B" have the same tongue but sound different. That is for the result of one bieng an air noise while the other is a vocal noise. Pronouncing B, the resonator, vibrator, lip, and tongue placement make the noise, but with P, the sound comes purely from the air traveling in the position of your tongue and