PSY BEH 110D Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 18 Months
8 Sep 2016
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Infants" developing understanding of word meaning and vocabulary. Many possibilities for thinking about what an utterance someone says actually means. When an infant hears a new word, the word applies to the whole object, not its parts or properties. Whe(cid:374) i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts hear a (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:449)ord, the (cid:449)ord applies to a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t i(cid:374) the e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t that does(cid:374)"t have names. How when new words are presented, the new words are likely to refer to objects instead of relations between objects. In relation to categories, new words more likely to refer to basic-level items. If a child sees a dog, and hears blug, the child will think it refers to the category of dog, instead of all mammals. Using word endings to interpret unknown words (-s refers to plural words, -ing makes a word an action word). Patterned speech - pseudo-speech that is patterned like speech but does not contain real words. Kids are picking up on what"s going on around them.
