BIO342H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 18 Months, Language Acquisition, Angular Gyrus
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But: we are unique in that we have abstract, symbolic means of communicating with each other = language. Seems we have evolved parts of the brain that are specifically dedicated to language, and evolved specifically for language. Noam chomsky famous linguist and political activist said we"ve evolved parts of the brain for acquiring language. Seems to have developed chronologically in the following order: Phonological (sound: in english language, 2 types of sounds that are first acquired in infants are: vowels (tend to be round mouth) & consonants. Infants tend to acquire consonants first, specifically b & k . Bababa kakaka cooing (1st stage in development of speech, language: phonology consists of alphabet but each letter of alphabet can have more than one sound. Semantic (meaning: will see in late infancy/early toddlerhood, smallest unit of meaning = morpheme . Ex. dis, un, ness, ful: 2nd stage = babbling (early toddlerhood, around 2 = development of words, early toddlerhood.
