PSYCH 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Parsing, Second-Language Acquisition, Phonological Development
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Sophisticated sensory abilities make way for rapid perceptual development: 2. Early on in life, infants see the world the same way adults do: 3. Perceptual and motor development work together to get the child off to the right start. 6m will look at mommy or daddy : 3. 12-14m attend longer to normal word order vs. scrambled: 4. Necessary conditions: the human brain, species-specific, only humans acquire language in the normal course of development, species-universal. Language learning is achieved by developing infants across the globe: brain areas associated with language. Left-hemisphere specialization appears to emerge very early in life: broca"s area: motor speech area, used in producing speech, wernicke"s area: sensory speech area, used in understanding. Language acquisition speech: critical period: time which language develops readily & after which (between 5. & puberty) language acquisition is much more difficult and ultimately less successful: faster acquisition prior to age 5, 1.
