PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Baby Sign Language, Joint Attention, Ontogeny

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Some researchers see desire to communicate basis for language development (e. g. hoff, kuhl) Social aspects of language that is building up the other parts of language. type of pragmatic bootstrapping the social nature of language is the gate that all other language development goes through. Pay attention to social sources, other people. Example: start off listening and refining then finish off by producing it. Some see it as independent (e. g. , chomsky) Firstborns better at vocab, second borns better at communication (e. g. , conversation), thus separable skills the second have more exposure to needing to communicate. Children with autism: that do have language, but fail to communicate. Any communicative act that an individual engages in purposefully. Beyond goal obtainment->belief attainment the clearest marker is when you go beyond goal obtainment (cry to change) Key question is when this emerges ontogenetically in the human. Request for social interaction, object, or action - i wanted. After production starts,more diverse range (p. 211-13)***