Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fast Mapping, Emergentism, Mutual Exclusivity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Gradually after year 1 (largely complete by age 5: add consonant endings (juice) i. e. cvc, add unstressed syllables (mato) Say first words beginning at 12 months (recall) Understand words beginning at six months (recognition) By age 6, vocabulary 10,000 words (5 words a day) Vocabulary spurt a transition between a slow and faster learning phase once the number of words learned reaches 50-100. Fast mapping children can connect a new word with an underlying concept after only a brief encounter (hearing it one time) Education, money, time parents have to spend w kids influences language development. Quality of adult-(cid:272)hild i(cid:374)te(cid:396)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s is the si(cid:374)gle (cid:373)ost i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) a (cid:272)hild"s la(cid:374)guage development. Low ses children have less verbal stimulation, smaller vocab, limited book reading. Referential style children whose vocabularies consist mainly of words that refer to objects (nouns) Expressive style initially produce many more social formulas and pronouns (thank you, done, good bye) t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)all(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t lea(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds as (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kl(cid:455)