PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Language Processing In The Brain, Frontal Lobe
Document Summary
Animals most definitely use their bodies and sounds to communicate, but usually in the here and now. Would you mess with this dog: animals use body language a lot and some sounds depending on the species, communication is not strictly human however, humans have language. To really impress all scientists an organism must use language in a very. Some people think that consciousness is there for a reason and there must be some advantage to having consciousness. Infants can distinguish between speech and non-speech sounds as early as 9 months. At birth they are sensitive to all relevant sound distinctions but they actually lose the ability to make distinctions not relevant to their culture (e. g. , the l/r distinction in japanese children) By 8 10 months they understand some words (cid:523)e. g. (cid:498)no(cid:499), (cid:498)mommy(cid:499)(cid:524) can. From 4 10 months they babble, and by 10 months they start using simple simple requests words. Eventually get to the point where their vocabulary shoots up.