CHD-2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unification Church, Phoneme, Tums

• School: FSU
• Department: Family and Child Sciences
• Course: CHD-2220
• Professor: D R.M U R R A Y K R A N T Z

Document Summary

Good at pragmatics speaker can let you know when their turn is almost over by the way they say it (allows you to prepare your turn/answer) Turn-taking conversations begins very early: how to be a good speaker and a good listener. All systems occur con-currently and children try to master these systems all at the same time. Childre(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) to lear(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage principles of language development: skinner operant learning. Children make certain sounds and then we reinforce them for making sounds. Continuous reinforcement helps children to improve their language = shaping. Not true (parents do not have the time to constantly reinforce every one of their (cid:272)hild(cid:859)s i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:895: nativist approach. Human brain has a certain component (area) to it that has the capacity to learn language. Language acquisition device (lad) = area in brain. Lad learns language through studying language by listening to it initially.