SPA 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mutual Exclusivity, Oneword, 18 Months
29 Apr 2020
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Illocutionary period (8-12 months: by 8 months of age, infant begins to show signs of communicative intent, gestures, such as showing objects to adults requesting items by pointing to them and giving object to adults. Instrumental to get what they want: regulatory to control behavior of others. Interactional to make contact with others: personal to demonstrate awareness of self, heuristic to get something explained. 2100 2200 words: 15 months, 18 months, 20 months, 24 months, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years. 2600 7000 words: preschool semantics receptive, 8-9 mos, 13 mos, 6 years 20,000 24,000 words, 12 years. It is enriched through increased frequency of exposure and/or richer quality of exposure. Innate biases for word learning: novel name-nameless category, novel word will be taken as the name for a previously unnamed object, ex. Cup, comb, novel object (dax: mutual exclusivity. If a child already has a name for an object, it cannot receive another name: ex.
