SPHR 2104W Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phonotactics, Joint Attention, Fast Mapping
19 Dec 2018
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By 2 weeks: distinguish caregiver"s voice/face from strangers". By 1 month: initiate interaction with caregiver by looking at them and vocalizing. Elicits predictable response by exhibiting a specific behavior. Joint reference and joint attention lead to intentional communication. 2-3 months: cooing and gooing: g sounds. 6 months of age: respond consistently to a few commonly used symbols. Canonical babbling: strings of repeated cv or vc syllables. First few years of life: huge variability in development. 9 months: language specific babble and phonotactics. Protowords: phonetically consistent forms, often with gesture. Ex: may be used in only one context. Word uttered with clear intention and purpose. One that child uses consistently and in context beyond the original. Meanings of words may differ from adult meanings. Use single words to request, comment and inquire. Alter pitch and gestures with word to use same word for more than one communicative act. Earliest period of learning about reading and writing.
