PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Spoken Language, Manual Communication, Handshape
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Reminder for test question requiring a written response: don"t rewrite the question. Tests and exams in science courses: terminology matters, being able to provide examples. Namy and waxman (1998) compared 18 and 24 month old hearing children. Tested degree to which children assume unfamiliar spoken word vs. arbitrary gesture refers to something: made up a number of words like, dax or rif , and made up novel gestures. You show the object as well as other objects, and ask the child to pick out the to (for example) the dax. If the child correctly picks the right object, the child formed an association between the sign and object. Results: 18 month olds: assumed either spoken word or gesture could refer to something. They were open in terms of whether or not words and gestures had meaning: 24 month olds: assumed only spoken word could refer to something (required additional incentive to map gesture to object)
