Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Socioeconomic Status, Feral Child, Noam Chomsky

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

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Language development symbols: symbols are systems for representing thoughts, feelings, and knowledge, and communicating them to others, symbol use is the creative and flexible capacity that most sets humans apart from other species. They are also able to make appropriate pragmatic inferences regarding the content of their part(cid:374)er"s utterances. Language development: what is required for language: a human environment. Infant-directed talk (idt): distinctive mode of speech that adults adopt when talking to babies and very young children. Includes warm and affectionate tone, high pitch, extreme intonation, and slower speech accompanied by exaggerated facial expressions. Includes repetition of strings of sounds comprising a consonant followed by a vowel. Language acquisition: preparation for production: early interactions, even before infants start speaking, they develop interactive routines similar to those required in the use of language for communication, turn taking, pointing, early word recognition. Infants first recognize words: then comprehend them, then begin to produce them, early word recognition is rapid.