PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sign Language, Eric Lenneberg, Eye Tracking
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Linguistic competence + communicative competence linguistic competence: being able to understand/produce language. Communicative competence: appropriate use of the language in communicative situations. Egocentric: language they use are about them, may appear as interactions, but they are collective monologues. Child understands that something is expected from them (cid:862)wh(cid:455)(cid:863: why requires abstract reasoning. Requires an explanation (cid:862)what(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)whe(cid:396)e(cid:863) is more here and now. Child is more likely to respond with a full sentence with what they said (cid:862)you (cid:449)a(cid:374)t (cid:449)hat(cid:863: child will answer with part of the previous utterance. More likely to talk to an adult than a peer. Important to keep on talking to some extent. Stop mimicking the previous utterance: does(cid:374)(cid:859)t p(cid:396)ese(cid:374)t a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:374)e(cid:449) i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) Answer to comment appropriately and also present some kind of new information. Mlu mean length utterance: average how long the phrases that a child can produce are. When children are interacting with peers at this age.
