JLP315H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Language Acquisition, Reduplication, Tunein
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Communication: exchange of info (broadly); more specifically between 2 or more people. January 17, 2018: lang is a subset of communication, social: lang requires social transmission. Communicative behaviours include: listening, responsiveness: making eye contact, laughing, smiling, etc, turn-taking, joint attention, teleological (goal-oriented) behaviour, pointing, showing, grabbing, etc. 3mos: laughter/smiles, eye-contact with dad, pauses for turn-taking: echoing of the dad. 6mos: eye-contact, turn-taking, reduplication of sounds, control of neck and head. 12mos: pacing around the room, gesturing (probably mimicking parents" behaviour on the phone), emergence of consonants, intonation, pause = turn-taking, bye! word. 18mos: turn-taking, reduplicating syllables, laughter, gesturing, intonation, emotion. 24mos: words yeaaahhh , interacting with caregiver, turn-taking/eye-contact, semantic association with sound/meaning (ex. balloon), intelligible speech, talking in sentences, intention (asking for help, commenting, etc. Their first year: no impact for deaf non-verbal mothers who provide no input to fetuses; their infants are capable of developing the same. Infants attend preferentially to common phoneme combos in native lang (ex. pem.
