PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kanzi
20 Nov 2014
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The whorf sapir hypothesis: suggests that language has the power to influence our thoughts and perceptions: study of the piraha (brazil, native language contains only three counting words (one, two, many, the members of the tribe performed well on task when there were groups of one or two, performance decreased when tests set greater than three. Language development: the general course of language development, 12 wks (cid:224) cooing sounds, 16 wks (cid:224) turns head towards voices, 6 months (cid:224) imitates sounds, 1 yr (cid:224) bubbles, 2 yrs (cid:224) 50 250 words; 2 word phrases, 2. 5 yrs (cid:224) vocabulary > 850 words mastered the major aspects of language, language explosion: vocabulary increases very rapidly and most children have, babbling: characterized by drawn out sounds made up of a variety of, may sound like real sentence or q. b/c of inflection and rhythm in the production combinations of vowels and consonants of the babble, complexity of syntax continues to improve throughout childhood.
