PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mutual Exclusivity, 18 Months, Syntactic Bootstrapping

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

Document Summary

Pauses are after phrases the spoken word is not like the written word. Phonotactics figure out where words are by combining sounds - if you can"t combine sounds you know you need a pause. English is more likely to stress the beginning of the word, can give a clue of where the word starts and ends. Example, the guitar is - taris was found as the beginning because of the stress. Ids it stresses stress, slower, increased incidence of solitary words (more words on their own) repetition of the word in isolation. Someone sees a frog and says gorp leads us to assume that means frog. The mapping problem. it"s related, you map it to the certain word, select the one arbitrary choice. Not only do kids make assumptions about words, they do so quickly and correctly. By 6 years, have over 10,000 words. So, learn an average of 5 words/day.