PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Yerkish, Sign Language, Orange (Fruit)
26 Mar 2016
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How caregivers support word learning: engagement with toys, shared experiences open world to language, scaffold word learning (deb roy video). Talk to infant all the time infant direct speech helps with word segmentation. Simplify speech (grammatically simpler and shorter) to adjust speech to child"s ability. Rich in emotional expression (i. e. , bonding function): role of emotion (still face experiment, use of gesture like pointing to objects. English-language acquisition: the bilingual child"s job is to learn language. They are enveloped in language and language is tailored to them. If adult learners had the same experience they too would learn another language easily (bialystok video). Right hemisphere also contributes to language: some capacity for processing verbal meaning, damage = some problems with language comprehension, right hemi activation during language tasks, children with left hemisphere removed can still retain language abilities. What, if anything, is different about human language as compared to what.
