HUMANDEV 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Language Development, Language Processing In The Brain, 18 Months
26 Oct 2016
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Words consists of combining basic sounds of language- phonemes. Receptive language= understanding spoken or written language. Productive language- producing language through speaking or writing. Young infants can categorize all the sounds of all languages-- by 9 or 10 months they have lost ability. At about a year they reorganize the way in which they learn sounds. Babies learn: what sounds are in their language, they learn which combos are possible. By 9 months they prefer the sounds that are possible in their language. On star trek people talk to computers. 3 year old children have solved this. Children hear tens of thousands of examples of specific sounds in their native language. Prototype of the sound- if they hear a sound that is similar- they assume it is the prototype. When cooing and babbling they are making mouth-to-sound math. Relating movements of speech articulators to the sound they produce.
