ANTHRO 2D Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paralanguage, Baby Talk, Labialization
13 Feb 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Anthro 2d - lecture 7 - language acquisition & language socialization. Easier to learn languages before the tween age (11-13) The do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t (cid:373)odel for (cid:862)ho(cid:449) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage (cid:449)orks(cid:863) looks like ho(cid:449) la(cid:374)guage (cid:449)orks for a small subset of humanity. An ethnographic approach to language learning and child-reading reveals that language acquisition while a universal phenomenon is accomplished quite differently in different cultural contexts. Not spontaneously produced by children (or parents) Register - a subset of language intimately connected to social context (cid:894)thi(cid:374)k (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to (cid:862)superposed (cid:448)ariatio(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895) It(cid:859)s used to talk to (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies, (cid:374)ot adults. The child is treated as a conversational partner. The frequency of use diminishes as the child ages. Stomach > tummy | train > choo-choo. Rabbit > wabbit | very > vewy | truck > twuck. Mama | dada | choo-choo | itty-bitty | bye-bye. Language socialization - social processes linked to how children become not just competent speakers, but also competent social actors.
