FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Phonological Development, Fast Mapping, Pragmatics
29 Oct 2012
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Pragmatics: language is used for effective communication. Ability to attend to sound sequences: to produce sounds, combine them to understand words/ phrases. Development completed by age 5: some not acquired until middle childhood, for example: green house vs. greenhouse . Simplify the pronunciation of adult words: examples: delete unstressed syllable, banana becomes nana . Replace hissing sounds with stop consonant sounds: examples sea becomes tea , or say becomes tay . Children understand more words than they use. Children say first word at 12 months. Age 6: vocabulary of 10,000 words, learn 5 new words a day. Fast mapping: rapid connection of new words to meanings, cannont consider all meanings for new words. 5 mnths difference: between comprehension of 50 words (language understood) and production of 50 words (language they use) Object words (66%: words children can move. From the thing world : example: doggie, ball, shoe.
