PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Oneword

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

We acquire the use of 10 new words per day (on average) between ages 2 and 18. Most kids can recall words and meanings, and assemble words into sentences, while children learn the basic grammar of language before they can add 2+2 simultaneously following social rules for speaking and listening. 0-4 months - receptive language associating sounds with facial movements, and recognizing when sounds are broken into words. 4 months productive language babbling in multilingual sounds and gestures. 10 months babbling sounds more like parents" language. 12 months one-word stage understanding and beginning to say many nouns. 18-24 months two word stage adding verbs, and making sentences but missing words. 24+ months speaking full sentences and understand complex sentences. The role of genes: we seems to have an inborn (genetic) talent for acquiring language, though no particular kind of language is in the genes.