CSD-3366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fast Mapping, Semantic Feature, Deixis

• School: App State
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSD-3366
• Professor: Emily Lakey

Document Summary

Chapter 7: first meaningful speech consists of single-word utterances or single-word approximations of frequently used adult phrases, first word usually appears around first birthday, a true word has, phonetic relationship to adult word. Is consistently used in presence of reference: function of early words, request/describe objects, events, actions, ask basic wh questions, mark events and situations. Initially, intentions are signaled by gestures only: many early words can be interpreted only with accompanying gestures, gestures. Infants in one-word stage communicate with deictic and iconic gestures: deictic- having a reference, pointing, used more often. Iconic- convey meaning through form, action, position of the body: gestures and joint attention, 12-14 months use pointing and naming to engage in joint attention, demonstrates intentionality, at 16 months children should have 16 gestures. Mapping sounds into meanings- 18 months: pairing arbitrary sounds with meaning, early word learning reflects sensitivity to social intentions of speaker.