CLD 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dishabituation, Babbling, Speech Perception
6 Dec 2017
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Early communication contexts: beginning at birth, children are part of social environment, key interaction patterns eye contact and shared reference, communication loops, focus on meaning. Importance of adult responsiveness: sensitive periods of language development. It is difficult to find such children, but some examples have been found. In general, these children do not develop native-like competence in their first language, although it is often difficulty to know why that is the case. Late acquisition of american sign language: most deaf children are born to hearing parents, and many are not exposed to asl until late childhood or adolescence. Phonological rules: the distribution of different allophones of a phoneme in a particular language is rule based. In english, the regular plural form is s but different allophonic forms are used in different words. The plural sound in bikes is an unvoiced /s/ but the plural in cars is a voiced /z/
