ECE 343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Part Of Speech, Cognitive Development
6 Oct 2020
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The perception of stimuli that vary along a physical continuum as belonging to discrete categories. (1) classification of sounds into distinct and exhaustive categories. (2) inability to distinguish between members within a category very well, even. Di or a ti , no in-between. though they differ acoustically. Infants start out able to make all discriminations. With experience they become better at discriminating in own language, and less able to discriminate contrasts not used in their language. Children learn from their environment and differences within environments create difference among children in their rates of language development. Children use prosodic and phonological cues to understand grammatical structures. Nouns and verbs tend to receive stress and determiners/prepositions (closed class. Nouns usually have first syllable stress and verbs second syllable stress words) tend to be unstressed. When adults talk to children, they modify their speech. Repeat with corrections children"s sentences that contained errors.
