PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Kanzi, Sign Language, George Washington University

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31 Jan 2017
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Importance of parent"s language in response to children"s speech. Characteristics of language spoken to infants: snow study, went over this study again. Intentional gestures -9-12 months of age: aware their signals affect the other person, do(cid:374)"t have to be right next to the person, joint attention around the same time, they just want to share the experience here. Looking back and forth between the object and the partner. If you do(cid:374)"t look at the object or just at them or at wrong object this is not good enough. Referential: more nouns, names for objects, more labelling and describing of the world, language is for naming the world, focused on cognition, vocabulary grows faster, more object names than social phrases. Expressive: fewer nouns, more social expression, language is social and how we react, how we get our needs met, they are on a continuum. Also depends on culture group/social routines important tend to have more expressive.

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