Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joint Attention, Heritage Language, French Sign Language
5 Jan 2019
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Educational psychology textbook notes chapter 5 language development, language diversity and immigrant education. Children must coordinate sounds, meanings, words, and sequences of words, volume, voice tone, in ection and turn taking rules to have a convo. Over 6000 natural languages in the world. Cultures develop words for the concepts that are important to them. Languages change over time to re ect changing cultural needs and values. When and how does language develop: janet werker demonstrated how infants are born ready to learn any of the 6000 languages. Languages are formed from a set of speech sounds called phones newborn infants can discrim. nearly every phonetic contrast on which they are tested, even those they haven"t heard before. Babies begin to focus on and practice speech sounds they hear in their environment. By 12 months no longer able to distinguish sounds in all the worlds language: 2 processes known to support early language level. are common in adult child interactions:
