PSYC 2500 Lecture 10: Language and Development
2 Dec 2016
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A verbal form of communication: comprehension. Understanding of what others say: production. Actually speaking, signing or writing: language. A conventional system of symbols representing rules of governing symbols: communication. The process of exchanging information between organisms. Chomsky: innate capacity for humans to learn language, humans only, linguistic knowledge. Unable to reflect or describe: 75% of children in the study got the pluralisation. Burko study wanted to understand children"s understanding of: two wugs children are able to pluralize a wug, adults use compound words (cid:498)wuglet(cid:499, have problems with compound words: what. Children are born with many physiological structures and are equipped with necessary physiological to make that necessary: 2. perceptual, 3. cognitive. This is the first step in children"s learning and is the mastery of the sound system of their language. Infant phonology develops in a series of stages. Babies babble all around the world, even deaf babies. Ability to maintain eye contact shows that baby wants to communicate.
