PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Phoneme, Multilingualism, Social Change

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Alexandra Paxton

Document Summary

Ability to recognize mother"s voice (even from inside the womb) Ability to distinguish phonemes (basic sounds that make up words) Ability to distinguish between one"s own language and foreign language. Becoming sensitive to word order (sentence structure) Starting to understand first words (e. g. mommy ) This stage demonstrates the importance of early exposure to language. E. g. reading books to child, speaking to or around child. Stress and intonation patterns become recognizable in child"s speaking, but speech is still unintelligible and unclear. Starting to lose the ability to differentiate phonemes from other languages. Learning of 8-10 or more new words per week (mostly nouns) This period is known as a language explosion . Snowball effect : child is learning multiple words in context at once. The child forms connections and engages with what they are learning, allowing quicker and easier learning. Ability to use basic grammatical features and form multi-word utterances.