SAR SH 524 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Joint Attention, Intersubjectivity, Social Skills
2 Apr 2019
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Relation of early foundational skills to later language. Communication is clearly a central function of language, but the desire to communicate alone cannot explain language development. Evan babies with little need to communicate verbally (e. g. because all their needs are attentively met by their parents) still learn language. Communication may be a motivation for learning, but it doesn"t explain how the learning happens. Communication as part of the language acquisition process: The desire to communicate does play a role in language development. Children raised in isolation do not create their own language, but groups of children without language input do create on. Younger siblings typically acquire conversational skills earlier than older ones. Social gating: children seem to require a real person to motivate learning. The argument is that infants pay more attention to auditory signals used by live humans in communicative interactions than they do to auditory signals presented via screen media.
