PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joint Attention, Language Acquisition Device, Behaviorism
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11 pimary languages (more than 100 millon speakers) Evidence: ease of learning, over regularization so cannot be learned. Language is a tool for social and cultural purposes. Learned from parents, peers in routines in everyday life. Tend to take a cognitive approach that language develops in concert with cognition as a whole (versus a specialized module) Part of symbolic thought and comes about with activity in the world (piaget) Overview of production of sounds, gestures and rst words. Limited processing capacity restricts infants to processing only small chunks of input which may help them notice more ne-grained linguistic details. Executive functioning (control of attention and making choices) and they repeat what hear the most. High amplitude sucking - 6months can discriminate between sounds from di erent languages. Categorical perception of b, p, g present at birth, vowels at 6 months. Their social abilities allow them to use interactions with others to focus on what is relevant in the environment.
