PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Speech Segmentation, Morpheme, Phoneme
2 Apr 2018
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1, 2, and many couldn"t match proper amounts of nuts together because they didn"t know how we count; we need language to perceive objects in life: counter-evidence relative labels in different countries. Indian tribes use a single word to describe any senior male relative showing how less language still has the same effect. Ex: korea they have a word for mothers older brother instead of uncle. Universal phonetic sensitivity: ability of infants to discriminate between various sounds that they might encounter in a test; includes foreign sounds . Adult"s ability to discriminate phonemes worsens with age: easier to learn a language at a younger age, broca"s area major role in production of language. Theories of language development: social learning theory, children learn language through imitation/operant conditioning; Nurture component of language: lack of early social interaction leads to less-developed set of language skills.
