FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pragmatics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2270
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Pragmatics: language is used for effective communication. Ability to attend to sound sequences: produce sounds, combine them to understand words/phrases. Simplify the pronunciation of adult words: some not acquired until middle childhood. For example, (cid:498)green house(cid:499) vs. (cid:498)greenhouse(cid:499) i. e. delete unstressed syllable (cid:498)banana(cid:499) becomes (cid:498)nana(cid:499) For example, (cid:498)green house(cid:499) vs. (cid:498)greenhouse(cid:499) i. e. delete unstressed syllable (cid:498)banana(cid:499) becomes (cid:498)nana(cid:499) i. e. (cid:498)sea(cid:499) becomes (cid:498)tea(cid:499) or (cid:498)say(cid:499) becomes (cid:498)tay(cid:499) Replace hissing sounds with stop consonant sounds. Study for words and their meanings: children understand more words than they use. Children say first word at 12 months. Age 6: vocab of 10 000 words, learn 5 new words a day. Fast-mapping: rapid connection of new words to meanings, can"t consider all meanings for new words. 5 month difference: between comprehension of 50 words (language they understand) and production of 50 words (language they use) Types of words in toddlers" 50-word vocabulary.