Psychology 2134A/B Lecture : Sentence Processing
16 Jan 2012
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In this class you will learn how we take individual words and use them to understand sentences. As we learned in previous lectures, this can be a complex process because of how we need syntax to properly decode the structure of sentences. Early on, we see a 1 word phase around ages 1;0 - 1;6. Here we obseve children saying just one word at a time. These are mostly nouns, which as discussed previously tend to develop earliest. They also appear to be holophrases, which are single-words that stand in for multi-word utterances. For instance the child might say "juice" to ask for more juice, or "mine" to indicate that something is hers. Sometime around 2 years of age we observe a 2 word phase, where children start to string pairs of words together. For instance: "mommy go", "gimme sock", "pretty doggie".
