APLX 101 Lecture 1: APLX 101 Lecture 1 to Lecture 4
21 Jan 2019
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Happens from way before a child speaks their first word. Babies in their first months can hear sound contrasts that are not present in their environment e. g. babies learning english can perceive sound contrast in hindi. But they lose this ability rather quickly (before age 1) Babies can pick up everything and anything however, they lose. These abilities once they start picking up their main . Ted talk by patricia kuhl: the linguistic genius of babies . Produce their first word (approximately at 1 year) Telegraphic stage (longer strings of two, three, four +units) Might be missing function words (articles, verbs, etc) There are cultural differences that affect what children"s first words are. Hummel: nouns tend to predominate, forming close to 50% of words types for young children (pg 10) > noun bias. The precise age at which children reach developmental milestones varies. Bilingual children are usually on a different timeline.
