PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Language Processing In The Brain, Frontal Lobe

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16 Nov 2016
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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.

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