LING 3P61 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Habituation, Negative Feedback, Voice-Onset Time
19 Mar 2018
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The fact that you use language to communicate and connect with others motivates kids to learn language. Kuhl (2007) american babies learned mandarin sound contrasts after being read to live but not after viewing recordings on video. Infants learn from auditory signals only from live people who are communicating. O"doherty et al. (2001) 2 year olds learned words only in experimental conditions involving interaction. Two year olds were taught new words either by an adult in person, watching an adult teach an adult in person, watch an adult teach an adult in video or be taught themselves with a video. They only learned in first three conditions because there was interaction and communication between others. Child and adult both attend to another entity. Cognitive changes: from primary intersubjectivity (capacity to share oneself with others, such as smiling etc) to secondary intersubjectivity (capacity to share one"s experiences with others) Gaze following (they learn to follow other people"s gaze)
