PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Japanese Language, Phoneme, Fast Mapping
1 Sep 2018
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Infants can identify individual words: preferential looking: response time see where the child is looking - will turn toward the target object said in the speakers. So if s and d are heard together they must be from different words: separating function words from content words (preposition vs meaningful words kkk) First steps to speech: 2 months: cooing - vowel like sounds, 6 months: babbling - speech like sounds that have no meaning, 8-11 months: babbling includes intonation - rising or falling pitch, first words appear around 1yo. Infant"s babbling is influenced by speech they hear: understanding words as symbols. Infants understand that words are symbols: gestures are symbols that children start to use around the time they begin to talk. Fast mapping meanings to words: children learn words too rapidly - naming explosion - to be starting from scratch on each one, fast mapping: learning word meanings so rapidly that the child can"s be considering all possible meanings.
