PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Fast Mapping, Pragmatics, Psych

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Shaylene Nancekivell

Document Summary

1st video: conversations are kind of all over the place, turn taking, not really. Showed (cid:884) videos: (cid:498)talking up a storm with my (cid:884) year old(cid:499), (cid:498)6 year old girl talking about her toys(cid:499). understandable (cid:523)only parents really knew what she was saying because they"re. 2nd video: bad pronunciation due to missing teeth, very emphatic when she"s exposed to it more frequently). speaking, more advanced pragmatic skills, has literacy skills, speech almost adult like. Connect new words with underlying concepts after only a brief encounter. Study: (cid:498)children of 3-4 years were better able to quickly map a second novel word and to retain the two new word referent pairings regardless of the training procedure used than were younger children(cid:499). Fast mapping of multiple words: )nsights into when (cid:498)the information provided(cid:499) does and does not equal (cid:498)the information perceived(cid:499) In languages where verbs more stressed (chinese, japanese, korean) Big, small (cid:523)more general(cid:524) then we can learn tiny, medium (cid:523)specific(cid:524)