PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fast Mapping, Chocolate Cake, Mutual Exclusivity
9 Mar 2016
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A human brain: species-specific and species-universal, brain-language, critical period. The key to language development is in the human brain: a species-specific behavior, a species-universal behavior. Brain-language relation: left hemisphere specialization, broca"s area (speech production, wernicke"s area (speech comprehension) The critical-period hypothesis (lenneberg, 1967): most proficient at language learning before puberty: influences of early deprivation (e. g. , genie, wild child, effects of brain damage at different ages on language, language proficiency of second language acquired at different ages. Unlike other animals, humans are prewired to acquire language: noam chomsky"s language acquisition device (lad) Psy302/w2016/yang 2: dan slobin"s language-making capacity (lmc) Infant-directed talk (idt): the distinctive mode of speech that adults adopt when talking to babies and very young children: common but not universal, characteristics: Exaggeration: high pitch, extreme intonation, and slower speech; accompanied by exaggerated facial expressions. Infants prefer idt to speech directed to adults. Stage of language development: figure out the meaning.
