LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Babbling, Vowel, Categorical Perception

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Jon Gajewski

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How did we figure this out: the conditioned head turn procedure: takes advantage of children"s desire to see novel fun things, and their ability to turn their head. This is the last babbling stage before real words are spoken. Both theories can explain the acquisition pf phonemes. This is because both theories allow for innate knowledge (the ability to be a universal listener), and both theories allow for experience to play a role (the loss of universal listening). Domain general knowledge: knowledge that is used by multiple cognitive abilities: we can minimize the amount of innate knowledge necessary by relying solely on domain general knowledge. One piece of knowledge can assist multiple cognitive abilities. Domain specific knowledge: part of one cognitive ability: tends to increase the amount of innate knowledge necessary to solve problems, because every cognitive ability will require its own innate knowledge, nati(cid:448)ists do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)i(cid:374)d this state of affairs.